Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Gives Student Success Awards
Left to right: Curtis Maughan, Laney Hoggatt, Joshua Jacobs Jr., Claire Phelps, Adoette Vaughan, Louise Cole.
The World Languages & Digital Humanities Studio hosted the first Student Success Awards Reception for the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures on May 4.
Attendees were composed of departmental faculty, graduate and undergraduate students who were awarded Student Success funds to complete a research project, organize a workshop or travel to a conference focused on High Impact Practices and world language undergraduate student successes during both fall 2022 and spring 2023.
Recipients of the awards came from several WLLC programs, such as French, Classical Studies, Italian and Spanish, as well as the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies program.
Two faculty members of the Spanish program, Luis Fernando Restrepo and Raquel Castros, received funding to attend the 10th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language held at Harvard University from April 13-15.
Motoko Miura, an instructor of Japanese in WLLC, received a funding award to attend the ACTFL conference held in Boston and presented on Japanese folktale group performance projects.
Maria Comsa (instructor, French) and Christian Rosales (M.A., French) received funding to conduct research on the effectiveness of implementing Padlet in the French classroom as a teaching tool.
Undergraduate Peer-Learning Workshop leaders from the Student Success Peer-Learning Workshop series of academic year 2022-23 were also awarded certificates of appreciation for their contributions to the series. The four workshop leaders in attendance spanned several different language sections: Claire Phelps (Italian), Joshua Jacobs Jr. (Classical Studies), Laney Hoggatt (Arabic & Spanish) and Adoette Vaughan (French). The workshops led by these students covered a range of topics from study abroad to preparing for an oral exam.
Congratulations to our fall 2022-23 workshop leaders and award recipients!
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Contacts
Cheyenne Roy, assistant director
World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio
479-575-4159,
ceroy@uark.edu
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