Shoko Hamano and Wakana Kikuchi-Cavanaugh, Japanese professors in the East Asian Languages and Literatures department, received the first Language Center Award for Innovations in Language Teaching on May 7, 2008. The award recognizes innovations in language teaching that inspire students' extraordinary engagement with a language and culture, while promoting effective language learning practices. Hamano and Kikuchi-Cavanaugh were honored for their online program, "Visualizing Japanese Grammar," which uses computer-generated animations to demonstrate and explain Japanese grammatical concepts that tend to be difficult for English-speaking Japanese learners to grasp.
From left to right, Ludmila Guslistova, Shoko Hamano, Wakana Kikuchi-Cavanaugh, Jocelyne Brant and Margaret Gonglewski, Director of the Language Center. Photo courtesy of the Language Center
Assistant Professor of French Jocelyne Brant also was honored for her integration of creative writing into upper-level French language courses, and Ludmila Guslistova, adjunct assistant professor of Russian, for her creative treatment of authentic language materials for her course, Readings in the Russian Press
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