Please join us for our annual Language Grants Showcase and PLC Awards. This year's event will feature projects from the previous SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant Cycle as well as posters from our Fulbright FLTAs.

Come revel in the end of the academic year, enjoy a light lunch, and celebrate our colleagues' accomplishments! 

Featured Projects

• Francophone Community Partnership: Decolonizing the French Curriculum through Community Engagement – Elizabeth Collins, French and Francophone Studies
• Community and Classroom Connections: Taiko Workshop and Performance for Japanese Language Learners – Nana Takeda Kolb, Japanese Language Program
• Picturing Culture – Amel Mili, Arabic Language Program
• Digital Chapters for Media Chinese – Mien-hwa Chiang, Chinese Language Program
• Decolonizing Russian Studies: Creating Educational Business Cases on the Baltic States – Maria Bourlatskaya, Russia and East European Studies
• Italian Translation – Arianna Fognani, Italian Studies
• Integrating AI Teaching Tools into the High-Intermediate Chinese Language Curriculum – Jing Hu, Chinese Language Program
• Advancing Communicative and Intercultural Competence with OER: Revision of the 2nd-Year Korean Curriculum – Siwon Lee, Korean Language Program
• Student Attitudes and Perceptions Towards the Use of Generative AI Technologiesfor Language Learning - Christina Frei and Betsy Kells, PLC
• Revitalizing Voices: Pedagogical Innovations and Curriculum Development in Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) Education (Part II) – Grace Wu, Chinese Language Program
• Exploring Social Issues through Engaging Texts in Intermediate Russian – Maria Alley, Russia and East European Studies
• Canvas Course site for Elementary Kazakh I – Zhanar Beketova, PLC/FIGS

Highlighted Works

• Designing an Exam for Student Placement and Exemption in Spanish - Jean Knight and Chad Everett Allan, Spanish
• Development of Integrated Korean Language Placement and Proficiency Test - Haewon Cho, Hyesun Jang, and Hyobin Won, Korean Language Program
• Evaluating and Modifying a Computerized Self-adaptive Chinese Language Placement Test with Qualtrics - Xiaomeng Zhang, Chinese Language Program

Penn Language Center Award
presented to Yohannes Hailu, Amharic

Poster Presentations
by Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants