AAUSC is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients of the Innovation in Language Program Direction Award! There were three recipients in the category of ‘Novel Application’ and two recipients in the category of ‘Adoption of New Theories.’ Awardees are listed in no particular order along with collaborators they wanted to acknowledge:

Novel Application Awardees

Italian Oral History Project and Enrollment Effects

Joëlle Carota; Nazareth University, World Languages and Cultures 

Spanish OER Curriculum Development 

Giovanni Zimotti; University of Iowa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 

Special thanks to ...

Fernando Castro Ortiz, Marta Agüero Guerra, (Northwestern University)

Alexis Jimenez, Rachel Klevar, Luke Whitaker, Claire Frances, Eden Jones, Claudia Pozzobon, Tamar Bernfeld, Pilar Marce (University of Iowa)

Gabriela Olivares Cuhat (University of Northern Iowa)

Kelly Kingsbury Brunetto (University of Nebraska)

Leslie Smith (Missouri Southern State University) 

Mackenzi McGowan (University of North Carolina at Pembroke)

Bethanny Sudibyo (Elon University)

Miguel Herranz Cano (Auburn University)

Portuguese Language Immersion in Brazil: Justice, Equity, and Rights

Cristiane Soares; Harvard University 

Special thanks to…

Tiago Genoveze (DRCLAs - Harvard)

Marcia Mendes McLean (Romance Languages and Literatures - Harvard)

Caroline Cotta de Melo Freitas (FESPSP).

 Integrating Cultural Literacy into Language Tutoring

Yiping Zhang; University of Rhode Island, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department 

Adoption of New Theories Awardees

Global Voices, Local Impact: Language Learning through Human Rights Practice

Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona 

Let’s Code for Languages: Integrating AI Chatbot into Language Learning

Qinghong (Ann) Cai; Northeastern University, World Language Center