Mark A. Kaiser, Associate Director, Berkeley Language Center (CA)     As the Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center, most of my time has been devoted to running the day-to-day operations of the BLC, working with faculty, designing new spaces,

By Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College.     With the advent of video and messaging platforms such as Skype, intercultural collaborations between partner institutions in different

Lillian Jones, Ph.D. student. University of California, Davis.       Technologies will never cease to influence communication. If we look around our campuses, classrooms, and coffee shops we are sure to observe a generation deeply absorbed in their pocket

Anastasiya Smith-Lakhno, Instructor of Russian, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UGA    Tatiana Maslova, Lecturer of Russian, University of North Georgia.  The transformative power of a study abroad experience for students is a well-established fact. Research demonstrates that

By Lisa Katzenstein, Tutor Coordinator-Language Corner, Richland College, Dallas, TX.     This is the story of a collection of 500+ books scattered around the language lab at Richland College in Dallas, Texas and how I organized the collection using

By Kristin M Marena, Spanish Teacher at Ringgold High School, PA.      “Music is life, that’s why our hearts have beats.” Cecily Morgan.   This quote expresses how much music is part of the human race and beats within