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2025-2026 Professional Development Award Recipients

The Texas Language Center is pleased to announce its Professional Development Award recipients for 2025-2026! The recipients are:

  • Adebimpe Adegbite — Assistant Professor of Instruction, Yoruba, African and African Diaspora Studies; Reimagining Heritage Language Pedagogy: Yoruba Proverbs in Immersion Education
  • Vivian Flanzer — Professor of Instruction, Portuguese Language Program Director; Spanish and Portuguese; Travel to attend XVIII Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) conference
  • Jack Riordan — Assistant Instructor, Spanish; Spanish and Portuguese; From Multimodal Micro-Corpora to Data-Driven Learning: Corpus-Informed Listening & Discourse Instruction in mid-level Spanish Courses
  • Daniele Cuneo — Associate Professor of Instruction; Asian Studies; “I am Rāma,” a paper on Connotational Meanings presented at the American Society of Premodern Asia
  • Rubi Sanchez Lozoya — Assistant Professor of Instruction; Asian Studies; Community-Driven OER for Conversational Hindi
  • Mina Kim — Assistant Professor of Instruction, Korean; Asian Studies; Art Across Spaces: Reimagining Korean Language Education through Museums, Global Exchange, and Creative Technologies
  • Yongfeng Liu — Assistant Professor of Instruction, Chinese; Asian Studies; Enhancing Chinese Language Learning through AI-Supported Communicative Practice
  • Alice McCoy-Bae — Assistant Professor of Instruction, Korean; Asian Studies; Voices of Our Community: Cultural Identity through Oral History
  • Chikako Cooke — Associate Professor of Instruction, Japanese; Asian Studies; Materials for in-class cultural activity
  • Midori Tanaka — Associate Professor of Instruction, Japanese; Asian Studies; Japanese Kaiwa Table × Board Games
  • Megan Hamilton — Assistant Instructor, French; European and EurasianStudies; Performed Culture Approach and the Romance Languages
  • Morgane Haesen — Assistant Professor of Instruction, French; European and Eurasian; 19th Century Women Writers in the Francophone World: An Open Education Resource for Language Teaching and Learning
  • Oeyvind Bjoeru — Assistant Professor of Instruction, Norwegian; European and Eurasian Studies; Norwegian through contemporary media immersion
  • Nick Henry — Associate Professor, German; European and Eurasian Studies; Material Development & Invited Talk
  • Frane Karabatic — Assistant Professor of Instruction, BCSM; European and Eurasian Studies; Navrh jezika: Integrating Generative AI and Authentic Field Data for Intermediate Croatian OER
  • Bernadeta Kaminska — Assistant Professor of Instruction, Polish; European and Eurasian Studies; International methodological workshops for teachers of Polish language and culture abroad
  • Jeannette Okur — Associate Professor of Instruction in Middle Eastern Studies; Turkish Program Coordinator; Associate Director of COERLL; Middle Eastern Studies; Participate in the 2026 Summer Institute on Translation Across the Curriculum at the University of Iowa

Congratulations to these instructors!