PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Robert Train, Modern Languages and Literatures, contributed the concluding chapter ( “Epilogue: A Critical Look at Technologies and Ideologies in Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education”) to a volume on Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education published this fall by Heinle & Heinle on behalf of the American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Foreign language programs. This volume explores the “intercultural perspective” on foreign language education. From this perspective, the focus of language learning is redefined in terms of intercultural rather than communicative competence. The contributions to the volume examine the pedagogy, processes, and outcomes of Native Speaker-Non-Native Speaker Internet-mediated language and culture learning partnerships in French, German, Spanish, EFL, and Russian from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including model learning, reflective practice, learner corpus analysis, cultural studies, ethnography, interactionism, and critical theory.

Kristine Snyder is the recipient of the sociology department’s C. Wright Mills Award for Sociological
Imagination for 2005. The Mills Award is bestowed on the best student paper from the previous academic year (2004-05) and was given to Kristine for her paper titled “The Social Development of the Adopted Self,” which she wrote under the guidance of professor Kathy Charmaz. Kristine graduated from SSU with a degree in sociology in Spring 2005 and is now applying to graduate school.The award was bestowed on Dec. 9 at a luncheon held in Snyder ’s honor.