1st Edition
High Impact Practices in Language and Culture Education A Casebook
1. Designing and Creating Digital Materials through a Senior-Year Interdisciplinary Project Chapter 2. Experiencing Japanese Culture Through the Core Curriculum: A "City as Classroom" Approach 3. Enhancing Communication and Cultural Competence in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP): A Case Study on Collaborative, Task-Based Learning with AI-Powered Chat Tools 4. Beyond L2 Proficiency: Impact of Collaborative, AI-Assisted Project-Based Learning on Language and Soft-Skills Development in EFL 5. Implementing Cultural-Learning Portfolios in Multiple Language Courses 6. Beyond Retention: Integrating Student Success and World Language Advocacy in the First-Year Experience Course 7. Designing and Administering a Summer Internship Program in Japan: Fostering Fundamental Social Competencies 8. Community Building in a College English for Academic Purposes Course: A Participatory Action Research Project 9. A French Archive in the Making: Translation, Migration, and Global Service Learning 10. Developing Undergraduate Students’ Digital Literacy, Second-Language Communicative Competence, and Research Skills through a Collaborative Student Research Project: A Case Study in an English-medium University 11. Podcasting and Global Learning in an Advanced German Writing Course
Biography
Kazumi Matsumoto is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Ball State University. She currently serves as a board member of the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association. Her research interests include intercultural competence, L2 fluency, and kanji recognition. She has published extensively on Japanese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
