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March 9, 2009

ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ representatives participate in LA Foreign Language Teachers Association meeting

The University of Louisiana at Monroe was well represented at the Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers Association meeting in Alexandria Feb. 27-28.

ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ participants included Department of Foreign Languages faculty María Blanca Wortham, president of LFLTA, and Dr. Charles Holloway and Dr. Ruth E. Smith, presenters. Smith co-presented with Kyriaki Kyrkou, a sophomore Spanish major from Cypress. ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ Department of Foreign Languages faculty Themis Jacobus and Dr. Carlos Fandal, along with Loukia Konstantinido, a junior Spanish major from Cyprus, also attended the conference.

Two ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ language graduates were elected to serve on the Executive Committee: Etheldra Christel Sharpe (’82, ’06), who was also awarded a mini-grant to assist with her Rayville High School Spanish classes, and Scott Harris (’97), who graduated with a degree in French and who teaches at the LSU Lab School.

The organization’s mission is to promote excellence in foreign language education for all learners; to provide professional development in foreign language teaching; to facilitate member networking and communication; to promote knowledge of current initiatives, trends, and research; and to encourage advocacy for foreign language learning at all levels. Approximately 125 individuals attended from throughout the state.

The conference chair was LFLTA Vice President Anita Greenwood, a Ruston High School French teacher. The keynote speaker and workshop presenter was Dr. Audrey Heining-Boynton, professor of Spanish and curriculum and instruction at the University of North Carolina and 2005 president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

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