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Ohio University and the Ohio Program of Intensive English (OPIE) will again to offer the “Go International” program for students in grades 9-11 this summer, reports the Vinton Daily. Students attending will have the option to live in an OU dorm with Japanese students, learn basic Japanese and cross-cultural communication […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Kouider Mokhtari ’84M, ’87PhD received the 2014 John C. Manning Public School Service Award from the International Reading Association, announced Dr. Ross Sherman, University of Texas at Tyler College of Education and Psychology Dean, in a news release. Mokhtari holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics, cognitive […]

Voices filled the room as pairs of graduate students and interviewers performed mock job interviews face-to-face or via Skype. In ELIP 5320 Oral Communication for the Graduate Researcher, students and community members teamed up for the interview role play on March 25. “Bringing complete strangers in, especially those with plenty […]

Faculty and students from the Linguistics Department, Ohio Program of Intensive English, and English Language Improvement Program are presenting at the Ohio University CALL Conference on April 11. CALL is computer-assisted language learning. Dr. Greg Kessler, Director of the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts & Sciences and […]

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director of the English Language Improvement Program at Ohio University, was a featured speaker at the Teacher Educator Conference 2014 put on by the British Council in Hyderabad, India, in February. It’s the largest teacher education conference in India. Bikowski spoke on “The Pedagogy of Collaboration: Teaching […]

The Ohio University CALL Conference will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 11, with a keynote from 9 to 10 a.m. in the Friends of the Library room. CALL is computer-assisted language learning. The keynote speaker is Dr. Paige Ware of Southern Methodist University on “Feedback for […]

College of Arts & Sciences students and faculty made their third trip to Iwate, Japan, this fall as part of tsunami relief efforts. While the physical devastation remains, they witnessed the emotional devastation that still runs deep. This year, they joined in a water distribution project. “Two-and-a-half years after [the disaster], the […]