Romance Languages and Literatures

In this online course, students learn about direct and indirect pronouns through examining a French song, which they analyze using collaborative software. Goals: To demonstrate to students how direct and indirect pronouns are used in a real life language...

In French 59: French and the Community, undergraduates teach French to Haitian immigrant children in order to improve their own French skills and to both serve and learn about the Haitian-American community. Goals: Students develop their oral...

As part of their Spanish exam, students role play a literary character and create an oral presentation on a mobile application they have designed. Goal/s: (1) To emphasize the three modes of communication (interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive)...

For Andrew Gray's intermediate Spanish course, students complete an activity using Spanish sayings to improve knowledge of the language and popular oral culture. The only prerequisite for this activity is intermediate knowledge of Spanish. At the...

This language activity asks students to bring a literary, scientific, historical or artistic page that they can relate to the common text and which has new vocabulary. They present these texts and use it to build vocabulary and analyze the text. Students...

In this activity, students appropriate and manipulate the words, grammar and themes of a “classic” work in order to develop their own styles as creative writers. By turning an iconic medium into a popular genre, students learn that classic writers have...

In this "murder mystery" activity, a beloved professor has been murdered in his mansion. The students have to take on the roles of different characters and, using Portuguese past verb tenses and relevant vocabulary, solve the mystery. Students act as...

In this game, students have to find their monster cut-out's mate by practicing Portuguese body vocabulary. Each monster has an unusual collection of body part (i.e., extra legs, fingers where feet should be etc.). The instructor hands out the cards...

During this activity, students build listening comprehension and cultural knowledge through Portuguese-language music. Students are given a handout with song lyrics and blank spaces for words that pertain to specific vocabulary or verb forms that are...

Students watch an excerpt of a foreign language film without sound and work in groups to craft a sample dialogue utilizing new vocabulary and grammar concepts. Goal: Grammar development and review Introduction/Background: In this simple language activity...