Redmond presented award from Southern Conference on Language Teaching
The Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) presented retired Professor of Education Mary Lynn Redmond with the 2019 SCOLT Founders Award, recently, at its annual conference. The award is presented to a member who has made significant contributions to SCOLT throughout a number of years and who exemplifies the spirit and ideals of the f0unders of the organization.
“Dr. Redmond’s leadership in post-secondary education has had ripple effects that have positively affected local, national and international language learning,” the organization announced. “Her presentations and publications are varied and the audiences that she addresses span the realm of World Language stakeholders–students, teachers, administrators and policy makers. She has continually linked proficiency-based research and language targets to real classroom practice in the K-20 environment.”
Redmond said, “SCOLT has a distinguished reputation as an outstanding professional that nurtures, supports and challenges its members as life-long learners and educators. At every step of the way, my personal involvement in this dynamic community has shaped the journey I have had as a world language educator, from my beginning years as a French teacher, continuing throughout my career in teacher education at Wake Forest University.”
Redmond retired from Wake Forest last year.
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Faculty retirements in 2017-2018
The following Wake Forest faculty (Reynolda Campus) retired in 2017-2018:
School of Business
Ram Baliga, professor
Lee Knight, professor
Dale Martin, professor
Bruce Resnick, professor
Brooke Saladin, associate professor
Gary Shoesmith, professor
College
Richard Carmichael, professor
Patricia Dixon, senior lecturer
Paul Escott, professor
Candelas Gala, professor
Ray Kuhn, professor
Mary Lynn Redmond, professor
Kurt Shaw, professor
School of Divinity
Bill J. Leonard, professor
School of Law
Miles Foy, professor
Ralph Peeples, professor
Charles Rose, professor
George Walker, professor
Robert Walsh, professor
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Mary Scanlon, librarian
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Rallings chairs foreign language conference
Yasuko Takata Rallings, Wright Family Faculty Fellow and associate professor of the practice in Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, chaired the 49th Annual Fall Conference of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina in late October in Durham.
Approximately 700 world language educators from across the state were in attendance. Among the presenters were Wake Forest faculty members Mary Lynn Redmond, professor and chair of education; Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages; T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, assistant professor of classical languages; Alyssa Howards, associate professor of German & Russian; and Claudia Vestal, visiting assistant professor of Romance Langues. (Romance Languages).
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Faculty members take leadership roles in language education
A number of Wake Forest professors are taking leadership roles in the field of language education.
Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages, is chair of the National Committee for Latin and Greek; Claudia Vestal, visiting assistant professor of Romance languages, is the incoming president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; and Yasuko Rallings, associate professor of the practice in East Asian Languages & Cultures, is the president of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina.
Mary Lynn Redmond, chair and professor of education, is past president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
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Conference on intercultural learning, free to WFU community
The WISE Conference, Wake Forest’s premier conference focusing on intercultural learning will be held on Feb. 5-6 at the Marriott Hotel Winston-Salem in downtown Winston-Salem. The conference is free for Wake Forest faculty and staff; however, registration is required through Eventbrite.
Hosted by the Center for Global Programs and Studies, WISE helps faculty and staff leaders, program coordinators and student advisors develop the knowledge and skills they need to help study abroad students — including international students who “study abroad” in the U.S. or another country — develop intercultural skills and awareness.
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