Language Studies – Â鶹ĘÓƵ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon_logo-32x32.jpg Language Studies – Â鶹ĘÓƵ 32 32 2021 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival at Ramirez Elementary School /projects/2021-chinese-mid-autumn-festival-at-ramirez-elementary-school/ /projects/2021-chinese-mid-autumn-festival-at-ramirez-elementary-school/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:08 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/2021-chinese-mid-autumn-festival-at-ramirez-elementary-school/ Read More... from 2021 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival at Ramirez Elementary School

]]> TTU Chinese Language and Area Studies program partnered with the Chinese Language Program at Ramirez Elementary School at the start of the Fall 2021 academic semester. TTU Chinese language program will support the Chinese language teaching and culture promotion at Ramirez. Ramirez will offer teaching opportunities for the students from the CHIN4300 Chinese Language and Culture Teaching Practicum as an internship. The course is taught by Dr. Yanlin Wang, the director of the Chinese Language program, and this fall is the first time it will be offered in the history of TTU. In partnership with Ramirez, students from CHIN4300 organized the 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival to be held on Sept. 21st at Ramirez, with aims to introduce the traditions of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese language, and culture. The expectations were to promote the Chinese culture, increase the cultural diversity of the Ramirez campus, and support the Chinese program at Ramirez Elementary.

The event was successfully held on Sept. 21st and was opened to the entire campus community at Ramirez. TTU students from CHIN4300 and 14 volunteers from the TTU Chinese language program set up 10 activity stations to introduce the Chinese traditional festival as well as the Chinese language and culture. The activities included Chinese tattoos, Chinese traditional painting, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese language, Chinese chopstick game, Chinese characters matching game, making Chinese lanterns, eating Chinese mooncakes, watching the video of the festival, pin the tail of the bunny, etc. Around 400 k-12 students and families from Ramirez and other LISD schools participated in the event.

]]> /projects/2021-chinese-mid-autumn-festival-at-ramirez-elementary-school/feed/ 0 Developing Content for the University of St. Thomas Pollinator Path /projects/developing-content-for-the-university-of-st-thomas-pollinator-path-5/ /projects/developing-content-for-the-university-of-st-thomas-pollinator-path-5/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:58 +0000 https://portal.epicn.org/case-stories/developing-content-for-the-university-of-st-thomas-pollinator-path-2/ Read More... from Developing Content for the University of St. Thomas Pollinator Path

]]> The Sustainable Communities Partnership is partnering with the Department of Biology’s Pollinator Path to add multi-disciplinary and community educational value to the pollinator path. Students in Theology 101 and Spanish 211 (paired courses) will develop content for the Pollinator Path; this project work will also provide a framework for discussion and practice of the courses’ learning objectives. Theology 101 students will identify quotes from Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, that interpret the Pollinator Path as an expression of care for creation from Catholic social teaching. Encyclical quotes will be included on the Pollinator Path website.

]]> The City of Elk River was selected to participate in the Climate Smart Municipalities partnership for 2016-2018. This partnership is between the state of Minnesota and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Five Minnesota cities (Elk River, Morris, Warren, Duluth, and Rochester) have been paired up with NRW cities (Iserloh, Saerbeck, Arnsberg, Munster, and Siegen) to collaborate on energy-smart and sustainable projects. In July of 2016, the Minnesota delegation traveled to NRW to visit the partner cities and tour a number of facilities such as solar installation, wind turbines, district heating plants, natural gas plants, and sustainable building projects.

Elk River is partnered with Iserlohn, a community of around 90,000 in population located in the middle of NRW. Iserlohn is currently working on a district heating expansion and increasing “e-mobility” (electric vehicles and bikes) transportation in the community. These are both projects that Elk River is currently pursing as well. The two communities plan to collaborate together and support each other’s projects.

During Elk River’s visit to Iserlohn, they discussed the Konzeptpapier VideoContest. This was a project that Iserlohn city staff completed in 2012 to garner interest in climate smart and clean energy from the community. This document is in German but would be useful for Elk River to copy as a competition for our community. Students will translate these materials for Elk River, so they can use them as a model to develop a similar program.

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City Outcomes
As a part of the City of Elk River’s German partnership in Climate-Smart Municipalities, translation is a necessary step to move forward on projects. The translation of these materials from our German city partner will allow Elk River to conduct a video contest geared toward K-12 students to promote sustainability and climate change efforts.

]]> Metro Transit would like to improve response rates to their customer satisfaction surveys among native Spanish speakers to improve service and amenities for this community. Students will conduct interviews in Spanish with native Spanish speakers to both gather information about where and how to distribute customer satisfaction surveys, as well as to gain feedback about the customer satisfaction survey itself. Students will analyze these findings and provide a report to Metro Transit to inform improvements of their customer satisfaction survey for native Spanish speakers.

]]> Identify best practices and strategies for Carver County, local governments, and other agencies to more effectively engage the Latino population in the county about community services and programming.

]]> Students in the course Translation Workshop and Independent Study student Vanessa Guzman in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese translated documents into Spanish for Webster City and the Kendall Young Library in order to serve the community’s growing Hispanic population.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Pilar Marce
Spanish and Portuguese

Local Government / Community Contact
Lindsay Henderson

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