On Friday, March 29, the Department of Modern Languages hosted our 12th Signatures Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Andie Faber, Assistant Professor of Spanish. The Signatures Lecture Series is an annual faculty lecture that gives Modern Languages professors the opportunity to showcase their research to the department, college, and greater university community. Dr. Faber’s talk, “Fostering…
Category: Spanish
Spain Student Blogs: Grocery Stores!
My name is Gracyn McClain and I am majoring in Human Development & Family Science (Pre-Occupational Therapy) and minoring in Spanish. When visiting Spain to work towards my Spanish minor I was really interested in the differences between American and Spanish grocery stores. I wanted to know not only how they were set up on the inside…
Spain Student Blogs: El cine pamplonés, Going to the Movies in Pamplona
Hi! My name is Joey Vogt and I’m a junior here at K-State double-majoring in Spanish and Criminology. The reason I decided to study in Spain was because I wanted to learn more about Spanish culture, meet people from different parts of the world, and overall learn more Spanish! For one of my SPAN 565 essays, I chose to write…
Spanish Graduate Student Attends ACTFL Convention in Chicago
This past weekend one of our MA-Spanish graduate students, Annie McCord (’25), attended the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Chicago, Illinois (November 17– November 19, 2023). The annual ACTFL Convention sponsors hundreds of workshops, seminars, and research presentations throughout the weekend, and always occurs the weekend before Thanksgiving. Annie received a Graduate Student Council Travel Grant and…
Spain Student Blogs: Accessibility & Autism, “Understand your city with pictograms”
My name is Maggie Verkuilen and I am a senior at Kansas State University studying Kinesiology with minors in Spanish and Psychology; I will graduate this December, 2023, and I was able to study in Spain this summer to complete my Spanish minor before graduation. I want to be an occupational therapist who specializes in working with special needs individuals….
Spain Student Blogs: El Festival de San Fermín, o los Sanfermines
This is part of a series of student-written blog posts. Students who participated in our annual faculty-led summer study abroad program in Spain with Dr. Bender in 2023 – Spain Today: Madrid, Pamplona y el Norte – wrote blog posts as part of their assignment for Spanish 565: Cultures & Civilization of Spain. We’ll be sharing them…
K-State is Offering Spanish 3 & 4 Asynchronously Online this year (2023-24)
Modern Languages is now offering Spanish III and IV (Span 300 & 301) online and asynchronous for Fall/Spring 2023-24; both are 3 credit hours, and students can work at their own pace (weekly) without any formal meeting times. By Fall 2024, we hope to offer all four levels of Spanish (I-IV) online. This is an exciting addition…
Spanish Faculty Present in Spain at the 2023 American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP)
Spanish faculty members, Dr. Raelynne Hale and Dr. Andie Faber each gave presentations at the 2023 American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) conference in Salamanca, Spain this summer. Dr. Hale presented innovative teaching strategies with a session titled “Transforming the Online Language Classroom: Bringing Creativity Back!” Dr. Faber presented the exciting pedagogical…
NEW: Heritage & Bilingual Spanish Courses updated for 2023-24
Spanish 411: Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Culture & Composition Fall 2023, Tu/Th 1:05-2:20pm Did you grow up speaking Spanish at home or in your community? Are you a bilingual Spanish-English speaker, educated predominantly in the US school systems? Does your family speak Spanish, and you have very high comprehension, can communicate easily when speaking, but…
Spanish and Chinese Professors Work Together to Publish Edited Volume on L2 Writing
Dr. Li Yang, Associate Professor of Chinese, and Dr. Laura Valentin-Rivera, Associate Professor of Spanish, worked together to publish a book, Developing Writing Competence in L2 Chinese Classrooms: Research and Application (2023, Multilingual Matters). This volume explores the writing of Chinese as a second language.
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