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Intercambio Spanish Language Mixer was created in 2017 by Dr. Beth Bernstein and Dr. Susana Villanueva Eguia Lis in order to provide a time and place for students learning Spanish and International student from Spanish speaking countries to meet and engage in Global Literacy and Multi-cultural understanding. Sponsored by World Languages Department & International Students and Scholar Services at Texas State University since 2017 |
Media Mention "Teaching & Learning through a pandemic" by Julie Cooper and Yvonne Rhodes, Dec. 18th, 2020. Texas State University News Room.
Dr. Lis also partnered with senior lecturer Dr. Beth Bernstein to organize Spanish Language Mixers via Zoom in the summer and fall to help Texas State students learning Spanish meet international students from Spanish-speaking countries. Students from Spain, Panamá, Belize, and Puerto Rico attended. During the pandemic, Virtual Language Facilitators included lecturers Gloria Velazquez and Wyatt Lane Ince in the picture above, among many others who volunteered their time.
Spanish in the time of coronavirus Dr. Susana Villanueva Eguia Lis, Department of World Languages, College of Liberal Arts
After classes were moved online following spring break, Dr. Villanueva Eguia Lis was inspired to talk to her students about how to build resilience by expressing your feelings through poetry. The class read poetry written during the bubonic plague of 1556-1678, in which the writer described how people felt during quarantine and after the sickness ended. Students then wrote their own original poems in Spanish. Several of their poems were published in the Al Principio 2020 student magazine made by Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, Chapter Beta Epsilon at Texas State. Makaila Rhoden was one of the students whose poem was published. “One of the advantages of teaching classes in Zoom is that we have worldwide access to live virtual events that used to be by invitation only, or that took place abroad and thus difficult to attend.” Dr. Lis took advantage of the virtual format with events that explored grief and loss and cultural expressions of the Mexican and Mexican American community during Day of the Dead, or Dia de Muertos.
Original Article Click Here: news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2020/teaching-through-a-pandemic.html
Media Mention at University Star Newspaper in San Marcos, Texas, 2017