CONNECTIONS 2023
CONNECTIONS 2023
Connections
A Journal for Foreign Language Educators
Volume 11 – Fall 2023
About us
Connections is an online yearly peer-reviewed journal published by the Foreign Language Association of Northern California and directed to the world language professional in the classroom. From its origins with SWCOLT and its continuation with FLANC since 2008, the journal has aimed at sharing meaningful research and outcomes in the field of linguistics as well as current pedagogical trends, best practices on technology-mediated tasks, and activities to integrate the intercultural dimension in language teaching and learning.
ISSN Online: 1945-0478
ISSN Print: 1945-046X
For past issues, please, visit our website.
Submissions are welcome at any point. Please, visit our website to see the call for papers, authors’ guidelines, and deadline for our next issue: https://www.flanc.net/connections
Index
Agnew, Junko. The Impact of Student Philanthropy on a Japanese Drama Course. Department of
World Languages and Literature, Northern Kentucky University
Avkhimovich, Irina. Reading Leo Tolstoy in Russian: Motivation, Hybrid Approaches, and Cultural Contexts. Department of Modern Languages, University of North Georgia
Campoy, Maribel. From Translator to Post-Editor: A Different Perspective on Teaching Translation to Language Majors. Department of Global Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Indianapolis
Fan, Yating. Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Poetry: A Project to Empower Students to Speak Out Against Anti-Asian Discrimination. Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University
Grady, Megan and Gabriela Muniz. Expanding Intercultural Education Through the Documentary Gaze: A Powerful Tool for Technology and Learning. Center for Academic Technology and Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Butler University
Mac Donald, Kara and Sun Young Park. Empowering Higher Education Foreign Language Teachers with Effective Peer Observation and Feedback Practice. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, California
Neuman, Nichole. Creating Diverse Encounters Within an Established Short-Term Study Abroad Program. Department of World Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Pak, Chin-Sook and Lynne Stallings. Culturally Relevant Community-Based Learning for Heritage Students of Spanish: A Virtual Collaboration with Dual Language Immersion Schools. Department of Modern Languages and Classics and Department of English, Ball State University
Wu, Ming. Incorporating Culture into a Language Classroom through Chinese Character Teaching & Practice. Department of Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville
Zimotti, Giovanni, Rachel Klevar, Gabriela Olivares, and Eden Jones. Listening to our Learners: A Thematic Analysis of U.S. College Students’ Preferences in Language Education Resources. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa, Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology, University of Iowa, and Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Northern Iowa
Book reviews
D’Angelo, Oriette (2023). [Review of the book Designing the Modern World Language Classroom: How to Guide Students to Proficiency by M. King]. Tandem Light Press (June 27, 2022), 140 pp. ISBN-13: 979-8985640403 (Paperback)
Walton-Price, Gaye D. (2023) [Review of the book The Literacy Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages by Ana Albach] Palgrave Macmillan (2022), 108 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-94878-8 (Hardback)
The Literacy Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages
Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom - Book Review
Designing the Modern World Language Classroom: How to Guide Students to Proficiency
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning - Book Review
Listening to Our Learners: A Thematic Analysis of U.S. College Students' Preferences in Language Education Resources
Transforming Short-Term Study Abroad Through Service-Learning
Incorporating Culture into a Language Classroom throughChinese Character Teaching and Practice
The Role of Supervisor in Creating the Supporting Conditions for Teachers’ Self-Reflection: Action Research
Creating Diverse Encounters Within an Established Short-Term Study Abroad Program
The Four Cs Strategy in L2 Online and F2F Instruction
Empowering Higher Education Foreign Language Teachers with Effective Peer Observation and Feedback Practice
“I don’t know if I want to be a teacher anymore”: The effect of cooperating teacher burn-out on student teachers
Expanding Intercultural Education Through the Documentary Gaze: A Powerful Tool for Technology and Learning
Creating a Virtual Escape Room
to Promote Learner Engagement in a Gamified Context
Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Poetry: A Project to Empower Students to SpeakOut Against Anti-Asian Discrimination
Comfortably Uncomfortable: Challenging anti-Asian bias in Spain and the United States through the Graphic Essay
From Translator to Post-Editor: A Different Perspective on TeachingTranslation to Language Majors
Peckenpaugh, Kacy. Studying Abroad, is it Relevant if Students Don’t Know or Can’t Articulate
What They’ve Learned? Department of Foreign Languages, Weber State University
Reading Leo Tolstoy in Russian: Motivation, Hybrid Approaches, and Cultural Contexts
Creating a Virtual Escape Room
to Promote Learner Engagement in a Gamified Context
The Impact of Student Philanthropy on a Japanese Drama Course
Creating a Virtual Escape Room
to Promote Learner Engagement in a Gamified Context