1st Edition
High Impact Practices in Language and Culture Education A Casebook
Introduction
Senior Year Projects in Learning Communities
Chapter 1. Designing and Creating Digital Materials through a Senior-Year Interdisciplinary Project
Kazumi Matsumoto
Common Intellectual Experiences and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Chapter 2. Experiencing Japanese Culture Through the Core Curriculum: A "City as Classroom" Approach
Yumi Takamiya
Collaborative Assignments with AI
Chapter 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
Timothy Ashe, Jr. and Linh Phung
Chapter 4. Beyond L2 Proficiency: Impact of Collaborative, AI-Assisted Project-Based Learning on Language and Soft-Skills Development in EFL
Yolanda Natalia Álvarez Gómez and Xavier Gutiérrez
ePortfolios to enhance Cultural Learning
Chapter 5. Implementing Cultural-Learning Portfolios in Multiple Language Courses
Angela George, Rachel Friedman, Eleonora Buonocore and Siobhan Kelly
First-Year Seminar Experiences
Chapter 6: Beyond Retention: Integrating Student Success and World Language Advocacy in the First-Year Experience Course
Krista S. Chambless
Internships
Chapter 7 Designing and Administering a Summer Internship Program in Japan: Fostering Fundamental Social Competencies
Atsushi Hasegawa and Emi Murayama
Learning Communities
Chapter 8 Community Building in a College English for Academic Purposes Course: A Participatory Action Research Project
Alireza Sobhanmanesh
Integrating Service Learning and Global Perspectives
Chapter 9 A French Archive in the Making: Translation, Migration, and Global Service Learning
Claudia Esposito and Stéphanie Ravillon
Undergraduate Research through Digital Literacy
Chapter 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
Alice Yin Wa Chan and Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
Writing-Intensive Courses and Global Learning
Chapter 11: Podcasting and Global Learning in an Advanced German Writing Course
Carlee Arnett and Harriett Jernigan
Index
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.
