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The following list contains all papers presented at the Annual Conferences of the North American Christian Foreign Language Association from the first in 1991 to the present.

From 1991 - 1997, many of the papers were published in the NACFLA Proceedings of each conference.

 

1991

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

1992

1994

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

   

2005

2006

         2007    

Papers Presented at Wheaton College, April 12-13, 1991

Apol, Dallas and Case J. Boot

Dordt College

Language: From the Garden to the City

Beaney, John and Linda Parkyn

Messiah College

Collaborative Teaching and Learning: Making the Most of Knowledgeable Peers

Boehne, Pat

Eastern College

Foreign Language and Cultural Awareness Across the Curriculum

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

Teaching Culture from a Christian Perspective: Is It Any Different?

Chastain, Kenneth

University of Virginia

Light, Salt, Culture Shock, and When in Rome

Chastain, Kenneth

University of Virginia

The Teaching of Writing

Crater, Catherine

Spring Arbor College

Integration of Faith and Learning: Survey of South American Literature

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

Literature Based Instruction: Thematic, Cultural and Integration Considerations

Fetzer, Glenn

Calvin College

A Space of Our Own: Contemporary French Poetry in Context

Goring Kepner, Christine

Wheaton College

Writing in Foreign Language Courses: Perilous/Possible/Profitable

Jessen, Patricia

Bethel College

Faces, Mirrors and Masks: A Christian View of Latin American as Revealed in Its Literature

Koene, Jacoba

Calvin College

Where do We Go from Here? Sharing Our Vision

Koustas, Jane and Mary Collier

Redeemer College and Westmont College

Christian Readings for the Classroom

Leddusire, Frank

Seattle Pacific University

The Pedagogy of Metaphor in First and Second Year Language: A Christian Approach

Macdonald, Michael

Seattle Pacific University

On a Christian Philosophy of Culture for Foreign Language Education

Marshall Pedersen

Wheaton College

Biblical Discipling Principles: Can They Inform Error-Correction Strategies in the Christian Foreign Language Classroom?

Mocuta, María

Wheaton College

Paul Claudel as Poet and Art Critic: A Reading of the Nightwatch

Morgan, Newell

Northwest Nazarene College

The Church Denomination as a Resource

Myhren, Patricia

Northwestern College

The Role of Personalized Questions in the Foreign Language Classroom

Piazza, Linda

Roberts Wesleyan College

Methods and Techniques for Integrating Christianity in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Sharing and Brainstorming Session

Severson, Marilyn

Seattle Pacific University

Faith and Values in France: Collected Readings for the Intermediate Level

Takalo, Ronald

Northwestern University

Methodology/Language/Culture: A Christian Perspective

Tsohantacidis, Timotheos

George Fox College

Teaching Hellenistic Greek with modern Greek Pronunciation

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Papers Presented at Seattle Pacific University, April 2-4, 1992

Presenter

Institution

Title

Baldwin, Claude-Marie

Calvin College

Opening New Worlds Through Authentic Materials

Bartholomew, Kathryn

Seattle Pacific University

Focus on the Learner: Teaching to Diverse Learning Styles

Bratt, Wallace

Calvin College

The Foreign Language Teacher as Servant to the Host Culture: The Case of Communist East Germany

Bunker, Duane

Palm Beach Atlantic College

Analyzing Culture in Spanish Literature

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

Against Guessing: Some Observations on Recent Reading Strategies in Foreign Language Education

Collier, Mary

Westmont College

Carmen: Mérimée’s and Bizet’s Image of Rebellion

De Lessert, Susan

George Fox College

The Search for Contemporary Christian Writers in France and Switzerland

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

Integration of Faith and Learning: Bridging the Gap Through Christian Songs in Spanish

Eledge, Jean

Lee College

Motivating the Language Learner: Message, Mission, Means

Greenway, Edna and Jacoba Koene

Calvin College

Workshop on Learning in and Through Community

Jessen, Trish

Bethel College

The Teacher as Servant-Facilitator in the Culture-Centered Classroom

Lamse, James

Calvin College

Treating Student Errors with Respect as a Source for Joy

Lindquist, Katherine

Northwest College

 

Madigan, Kathleen

King College

Students State a Symposium: The French Revolution Reconsidered

Marshall Pederson, Kathleen

Wheaton College

Christian Perspectives in the Foreign Language Classroom: Effective Feedback—Technique or Dynamic?

Marshall Pederson, Kathleen

 

Christian Perspectives in the Foreign Language Classroom: Creating Community and Optimizing Learning Through Developmental Feedback

Messer, Betty

Taylor University

The Professor as Mentor: Lowering Student Anxiety and Improving Writing Skills

Miles, John

Wheaton College

The Church in the Wilderness and the Camisard Revolt, 1689-1710

Miles, John et al

 

"I saw in Heaven a great and marvelous sign": The Wheaton Satellite Experience

Mitchell, Phyllis

Seattle Pacific University

Enriching the Language Experience: Overseas Programs

Piazza, Linda

Roberts Wesleyan College

Methods and Resources for Integrating Christianity in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Sharing and Barnstorming Session

Rusthoven, Thea van Til

Redeemer College

A Christian Approach to the Teaching of Description in the Novel

Siemans, William

Houghton College

The Word as Image of God: A Modest Proposal

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Papers Presented at Taylor University, April 1-3, 1993

Barrick, Eleanor A.

Taylor University

Poetry-Writing as a Means of Spiritual Self-Expression in the Intermediate French Classroom

Brown, Ed

Asbury College

Faith as a Cultural Element

Bunker, Duane

Palm Beach Atlantic College

Workshop on Identifying Cultural Elements in Literary Works

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

Religion and Art

Carville, Barbara and Edna Greenway

Calvin College

Preparing Christian Foreign Language Teachers for the Future

Collier, Mary

Westmont College

Carmen Jones, Rebel Without a Cause?

Docter, Mary

Westmont College

Death and Resurrection in César Vallejo’s España, aparta de mí este cáliz

Eledge, Jean and Carolyn Dirksen

Lee College

Teaching and Learning Culture: Christian Methodologies Abroad

Haskett, Kelsey

Trinity Western University

A Christian Perspective on French Canadian Literature

Henning, William

William Jewell College

Theological Perspectives in Literature

Henning, William

William Jewell College

On Making Value Judgements about Cultures

Lamse, James

Calvin College

Building Truth and Seeking Truth with Students

Longman, Karen and Carolyn Dirksen

Lee College

Using our Professions to Respond to the Challenge of World Missions

Osborne, Kelly

Hope College

Criteria for Evaluating References to the Miraculous/Divine in Classical (Greek) Literature

Severson, Marilyn

Seattle Pacific University

Louise de Savoie and the French Reformation

Siemens, Williams

Houghton College

Teaching Spanish American Literature as Revolt Against Wrong-Headed Theology

Spykman, Gordon

Calvin College

Which Culture Should We Teach?

Takalo, Ronald

Northwestern College

Culture from a Christian Perspective

Ziefle, Helmut W.

Wheaton College

Theological German at Wheaton College—A Model Course for Integration of Faith and Learning

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Papers Presented at Palm Beach Atlantic College, April 7-9, 1994

Presenter

Institution

Title

Anderson, Aleta

Westmont College

Religious Differences in Mark Twain’s and E.T.A. Hoffman’s Mysterious Strangers

Anonby, John A.

Trinity Western University

Pedagogical Approaches to the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Baldwin, Claude-Marie

Calvin College

The Power of the WORD and the Power of Words in Anne Hébert

Beckford, Trish

Bethel College

Looking Over the Wall: What do you see?

Blackwood, Mary

Westmont College

Carlos Saura’s Carmen: Repatriated or Still French?

Bratt, Wallace

Calvin College

Four-week Programs Abroad — Are they really worth it?

Campbell, Heidi

 

Aspects of International Communication Studies Through a Cross-Cultural Writing Workshop

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

"Wounded by the Father": Father-daughter relationships in recent East and West German Women Novelists

Cuppett, Cathleen

Wheaton College

Violencia y deseo mimético en Abel Sánchez

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

Developing Higher Cognitive Skills Through Interpretive Writing

Docter, Mary

Westmont College

Dreaming Man: Myth and Archetypes in Jorge Luis Borges’ "Las Ruinas Circulares"

Dunbar, David

Biola University

Effective Teaching Techniques

Eledge, Jean

Lee College

Language, Literature…and Leadership?!!

Greenway, Edna

Calvin College

A Design for an Off-Campus Cross-Cultural Experience

Kalidova, Theodore and Mary Virginia Reese

Grove City College

Developing Oral Facility Through Sustained L2 Use in the Classroom

Kepner, Christine

Wheaton College

Strategies of Teaching Writing in Foreign Language Courses

Lamse, James

Calvin College

How About a Work Exchange?

Longman, Karen

Christian College Coalition

Foreign Study Opportunities

Marshall, Kathy

Wheaton College

Foreign Language Teacher Training at the Christian College: A Reassessment

Mosher, Arthur

University of South Carolina

The Meaning of "Meaning": A Critique of "Meaning" as Used in the Theory of Reading Underlying "Reading of Meaning"

Rusthoven, Thea van Til

Redeemer College

Comment parler des termes de couleur dans un roman? - vers une méthodologie "Café au lait"

Severson, Marilyn and Phyllis Mitchell

Seattle Pacific University and Wheaton College

A Roundtable on Placement

Smith, David

The William Allitt School

Rediscovering a Heritage: Lull, Bacon and the Aims of Language Teaching

Smith, David

The William Allitt School

Christian Faith and Language Teaching in Great Britain: Renewal and Opportunity

Takalo, Ronald

Northwestern College

Cultural Relativism, Cultural Tolerance and Experiential knowledge – a Christian View

Ziefle, Helmut

Wheaton College

German Across the Curriculum (GAC)

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Papers Presented at Lee College, April 6-8, 1995

Presenter

Institution

Title

Anderson, Aleta and Mary Docter

Westmont College

Bridging the Gap: Creative Communication in a Multicultural Society

Anonby, John A.

Trinity Western University

Petini’s Depiction of the Futility of Violence in Hill of Fools

Antoine, Gerry

Delaware Christian School

Skits, Props, and Videos

Baldwin, Claude-Marie

Calvin College

Fostering Compassionate Cultural Understanding

Barrick, Eleanor and Janet Loy

Taylor University

The Great Omission: Robert and Mireille God to Church

Biehn-Araya, Janette L.

 

Why Teach Coritos in Spanish Class?

Blackwood Collier, Mary

Westmont College

Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen: How Does One Rebel in the Tragic Universe?

Boehne, Patricia

Eastern College

Christian Approaches for a Changing Paradigm

Bratt, Wallace

Calvin College

Christians, Marxists, and the Classroom: Was There Really a Wall between Us?

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

The Abolition of the Father: Some Observations on the Recent Discourse on Daughters and Fathers in Germany and the USA

Dickson, David

Biola University

In the Beginnings: Implications for Modern Language Teaching from Genesis 1-11

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

Promoting Conversation through Cultural Materials

Dunbar, David L.

Biola University

Forum: Develop a Local Modern Language Teachers Collaborative

Eledge, Jean

Lee College

Good Ideas that Work in Our Classes

Evans, Jan

Calvin College

The Spiraling Numbers of Students Studying Spanish: Should We Rejoice or Weep?

Henning, William A.

William Jewell College

Fides et Lingua: Toward a Theology of Language and Language Teaching

Koch, Rita D.

Taylor University

Buenas y santas: la santidad femenina en la Edad Media

Koene, Jacoba

University of Toronto

Religious Perspective in the Writings of Rubén Darío

Koustas, Jane

Brock University

Translation and Cultural Appreciation: Reading the "Other"

Lamse, James

Calvin College

Grounding the Discussion: Sharing How We Really Came to Talk the Way We Do.

Larsen, Lawrence S.

The University of Oklahoma

Animal Emblems of Parable and Prophesy: Sources for Sermons

Leddusire, Frank E.

Seattle Pacific University

Teaching of Christian Values through Anecdotic Processing

Marshall Pederson, Kathy

Wheaton College

The Role of Observation by and of the Student-Teacher: Nurturing Professional Development

Messer, Betty

Taylor University

The Wesleyan Urban Coalition January Miniterm in Chicago: Its Impact and Significance

Mitchell, Phyllis

Wheaton College

Spiritual Solutions to Problems of State in Mira deAmescua’s autos sacramentales

Mocuta, Maria

Wheaton College

The Dilemma of Literary and Cultural Interpretation

Morgan, Newell T.

Northwest Nazarene College

Benito Pérez Galdós’ Call for Clerical Reform in 19th-century Spain

Ramos, Lilian E.

Winona State University

Heimatdichtung: Its Value as a Literary Genre

Reese, Mary Virginia

Grove City College

The Hidden Meaning: Christine de Pizan’s Rightful Place in a Christian Curriculum

Sánchez Mora, Elena

Saint John’s College

The Portrayal of Christ in Spanish Poetry: Two Case Studies

Savage, Alan

Wheaton College

Personal Engagement vs. Critical Distance: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Siemens, William L.

Houghton College

An Antidote to Post-Christian Despair in the Works of Alvaro Mutis

Thomas, Michael D.

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Logos Language Institute: Christian Foreign Language Training Programs

Vander Klay, Rhonda J.

Ball State University

German Poetry: Functional and Creative Approaches

Velázquez, José A.

Anderson University

If You Prepare Them, They Will Go!

Warner, Ronald C. and Rhonda J. Vander Klay

Ball State University

Erlebnisdichtung

Winter, Lisa

Wadena Senior High School

Albert Schweizer as a Model for Christian Participation in a Public Sphere

Ziefle, Helmut

Wheaton College

Hermann Hesse and Christianity

Ziemann, Micheal J.

Seattle Pacific University

Reconciliation Begins with Truthfulness

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Papers Presented at Westmont College, April 11-13, 1996

Presenter

Institution

Title

Beaney, John

Messiah College

The Effectiveness of Additional Grammar Instruction on the Acquisition of Input in the Communicative Second Semester French Class

Boehne, Patricia J.

Eastern College

Fifteenth Century Poetry: Dizains Across the Pyrenees

Brouwer Konyndyk, Irene

Calvin College

Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Christian Imperative

Bunker, Duane F.

Palm Beach College

Love in La Celestina: Can it compare to I Corinthians 13?

Buteyn, Mary E.

Queens University and Dalhousie University

Stimulating the Appetite and Satiating the Hunger: The Community of Support in Raabe’s Der Hungerpastor

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

Towards a Christian Foreign Language Curriculum: Some Preliminary Considerations

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

The Short-Term Language-Abroad Program: A Balanced and Faith-integrated Approach

Docter, Mary

Westmont College

A Community of Voices: The Poetry of José Emilio Pacheco

Goring Kepner, Christine

Wheaton College

Calderón y la constancia

Greenway, Edna C.

Calvin College

Language Camp for Kids

Gundry, Robert H.

Westmont College

God Loved the World in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek: John 3:16 According to John 19:20

Haskett, Kelsey

Trinity Western University

The Quest for the Spiritual in the Novels of Marguerite Duras

Horst, Ray Elvin

Eastern Mennonite University

Create Reality/Create Success

José A. Velázquez

Anderson University

The National Standards for Foreign Language Learning and their impact on the Christian Foreign Language Classroom

Koene, Jacoba

University of Toronto

Christian Perspectives on Postmodernism

Lamse, James

Calvin College

Communicative Competence, the Proficiency Movement, and All the Rest: Some Questions from a Teacher of German

Larsen, Lawrence S.

University of Oklahoma

Catherine Winkworth: Hymnodist of Genius

Mitchell, Phyllis

Wheaton College

Go Ye Into All The World: The Christian Student’s Dialog With Foreign Language Literature

Reese, Mary Virginia

Grove City College

Renée de France and the Reformation

Savage, Alan D.

Wheaton College

Go Ye Into All The World: The Christian Student’s Dialog With Other Cultures

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College

Christian Values in Courses on Latin American Thought and Culture: Can We Overcome Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Relativism?

Takalo, Ronald

Northwestern College

Establishing a ‘refresher’ course for Spanish Professors

Wisely, Andrew

Anderson University

Und dann erschöpft zurückgeschlagen’: Caretaking the Stormy Soul in Büchner’s Lenz

Wood, Hadley

Point Loma Nazarene College

Focused Listening: A Guide to Managing Student Errors in the Foreign Language Classroom

Ziefle, Helmut

Wheaton College

Challenges and Benefits of Teaching a ‘German Across the Curriculum’ Course

Ziemann, Michael

Seattle Pacific University

Surreptitious Subversion, The STASI and the Church in East Germany

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Papers Presented at Calvin College, April 3-5, 1997

Presenter

Institution

Title

Anderson, Aleta

Westmont College

The Feminine Voice in The House of the Spirits of Isabel Allende and One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel García Márquez

Anonby, John A.

Trinity Western University

Christ as Political Patriot: Ngugi’s Matigari

Apol, Dallas

Dordt College

Review of Contigo: Essentials of Spanish by Ozete, Oscar, and Guillen

Barnhart, Jeffrey

Seattle Pacific University

E-dialogues: Bringing Faith Across the Electronic Frontier

Blackwood Collier, Mary

Westmont College

Francesco Rosi’s Carmen: Free Agent of Society’s Victim?

Bratt, Wallace

Calvin College

The East German Church after the Wall – Revival or Regression?

Clevenger, Sandra

Calvin College

Using Foreign Language Chapels for Integration of Faith and Learning

de Vries Jr., Herman

University of Connecticut

The Psalmist as Muse: The Psalter in the German Early Modern Literary Culture

Dickson, David

Biola University

The Culture of Integration in the Basic Language Courses

Dixon, Dick

Taylor University

El cuento: Un marco auténtico para la enseñanza de la cultura

Docter, Mary

Westmont College

Talking Pictures: The World as Image

Dunbar, David

Biola University

Review of Visión y voz by Galloway and Labarca

Fetzer, Glenn W.

Calvin College

Private Space / Public Sphere: The Cultural Alterity of French Poetry on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

Haskett, Kelsey L.

Trinity Western University

Marguerite Duras and Francis Bacon: A Cry of the Heart

Henning, William A.

William Jewell College

Toward a Theology of Language - II

Leeser, Michael J.

Wheaton College

Faith and Learning in the Intermediate Language Class: Use of Supplementary Materials

Lockerbie Grosh, Ellyn

Wheaton College

No Saving Grace: Approaching Baudelaire in the Christian Liberal Arts Classroom

Marshall Pederson, Kathleen

Wheaton College

Review of Teaching Language in Context by Omaggio Hadley

Mitchell, Phyllis and Christine Goring Kepner

Wheaton College

Animists, Catholics, Protestants: Religion in Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

Parkyn, Linda K.

Messiah College

Religious Folk Art of Guatemala

Phillips, Debra

Bryan College

Autonomy in the Foreign Language Classroom: Theory and Practice and Student Feedback

Rusthoven, Thea van Til

Redeemer College

Commentary on and Additions to the Charis Francais: Unités 1-5

Sánchez Mora, Elena

Saint John’s University

The portrayal of God in Spanish American Poetry: Two Case Studies

Savage, Alan

Wheaton College

Questions of Identity in Recent French Film

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College

Christian Values and Secular Textbooks on Latin America: Bringing the Two Together

Severson, Marilyn

Seattle Pacific University

Teaching the Holocaust in France

Shaffer, Clinton S.

Wheaton College

Review of Kontakte, A Communicative Approach by Terrell, Tschirner, Nikolai and Genzmer

Smith, David

Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto

For Profit, Pleasure, and Power? Cultural Diversity and the Mixed Motives of Foreign Language Education

Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra

Goshen College

Review of Der treffende Ausdruck by Brigitte Turneaure

Takalo, Ron

Northwestern College

The Role of Culture and Perception in Determining Christian Values

Westphal, Merold

Fordham University

The Challenge of Postmodernism to Christian Foreign Language Educators in a Multicultural World

Wilkins, Jim

Calvin College

Review of Liens en paroles

Ziefle, Helmut W.

Wheaton College

Review of Modern Theological German: A Reader and Dictionary by Helmut W. Ziefle

Ziemann, Michael J.

Seattle Pacific University

The Sins of the Fathers  

The German version with illustrations

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Papers Presented at Eastern College, April 2-4, 1998

Presenter

Institution

Title

Barnhart, Jeffrey D.

Seattle Pacific University

Fernán ‘Moses’ González: Re-casting a Hero for 13th Century Spain

Beck, Lois

Messiah College

The Newspaper in the Classroom: A Vehicle for Cultural Understanding

Clevenger, Sandra

Calvin College

Teaching Spanish: Neoclassicism from a Christian Perspective

Dixon, Dick

Taylor University

Hope and Hopelessness in El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Fetzer, Glenn

Calvin College

Guillevic and the Poetics of Incarnation

Hudson, Ann

Messiah College

Challenging Students Through Jules Verne’s Recently Printed (1994) Paris au XXe Siecle

Isaac, Lily

Liberty University

Ruptured Relationships in Kawabata Yasunari’s ‘The Sound of the Mountain’

Isaac, Samuel

Liberty University

Pablo Neruda’s Writings: A Prophet in Sheep’s Clothing

Kepner, Christine

Wheaton College

A Model for an Integrative Senior Seminar Capstone Course at the Christian Liberal Arts College

Koene, Jacoba

Anderson University

Let Them Keep Silent: The Relationship Between Women and Silence in Literature

Konyndyk, Irene

Calvin College

Strategizing for Students with Learning Difficulties

Kronmeyer, Olga

Liberty University

The Displacement of Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Easter Procession’ by his ‘For the Good of the Cause’

Lamse, James

Calvin College

We Want to Talk!

Messer, Betty

Taylor University

Perceptions of Cuba and its Current Reality: Christian Reflections and Responses

Mitchell, Phyllis

Wheaton College

Testing as an Incentive for Communication Skills: Wheaton College’s Competency Requirement

Parkyn, Linda, Christine Hensel, Jenn Keith, Becky Paeglow, and Mary Tracy

Messiah College

What should I do now? An Instructor’s Guide to Including Students with Learning Difficulties in the Language Classroom

Rossi, Maximo Jr.

Azusa Pacific University

A Christian Perspective on the Old World vs. New World Controversy

Severson, Marilyn S.

Seattle Pacific University

Holocaust in France

Shaffer, Clinton S.

Wheaton College

The Clothing of Salvation: Uniforms, Identity, and Authority in F.W. Murnau’s Der letzte Mann (1924), and Helmut Käutner’s Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956(

Sullivan, Adele O.

 

Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as a Theology of the Earth

Takalo, Ronald

Northwestern College

It’s About Time

TenHuisen, Dwight

Calvin College

Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Colonial Captivity Narative

Van Leeuwen, Raymond C.

Eastern College

Lex(icon), Lies, and Bibliotype: Orality and Literacy in Bible Translation Theory

VanLoan Aguilar, Julia

University of Pennsylvania

Designing Interactive Technologies with a Sound Pedagogical Base

Wisely, Andrew C.

Anderson University

Click on Faith: German Homepages as Barometers of the Spirit

Ziefle, Helmut W.

Wheaton College

Faith and Works: A Comparison of Luther’s, Goethe’s, and Hesse’s Views

Ziemann, Michael

Seattle Pacific University

The GDR’s ‘Anti-Fascist Heritage’ Revisited

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Papers Presented at Anderson University, March 25-27, 1999

Presenter

Institution

Title

Acker, Geoffrey B.

Belhaven

And what does the Lord require of you...? Reinforcing a Biblical World and Life View through the Writings of Böll and Borchert

Caltharp, Shelley

Anderson University

How Times of Crisis can be the Most Didactic: My Experiences in Puerto Rico During Hurricane Georges

Clevenger, Sandra

Calvin College

The Need to Revise Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

Female Characterization in Isabel Allende's Cuentos de Eva Luna

Eledge, Jean and James Wilkins

Lee University

To Know as We are Known: An Approach for the Foreign Language Classroom

Foley, Christian

Liberty University

Divine Justice in Moliere's Dom Juan

Foley, Christian

Liberty University

The Struggle Between Good and Evil for the Soul of Arthur Rimbaud in Une Saison en enfer

Gutiérrez-Sands, Isolina

Fresno Pacific University

Creating Picture Books for Authentic Language

Hamlow, June

Azusa Pacific University

Success and Failure Integrating Faith and Learning in Civilization Classes

Horst, Ray E.

Eastern Mennonite University

But we CAN use the language

Kant, Willi

Anderson University

Integrating Theory and Practice in Cross-Cultural Learning

Kepner, Christine

Wheaton College

A Life Well-Lived: A Calderonian Conception

Koene, Jacoba and Andrew Wisely

Anderson University

The Role of Foreign language Instruction in the Christian Liberal Arts Curriculum: A Mission Statement

Kronmeyer, Olga

Liberty University

A Season in Hell--Arthur Rimbaud's Escape?

Kurzen, Crysta

Anderson University

How Living in Costa Rica for a Semester Changed my Life

Lamse, James

Calvin College

School Drama: Pros and Cons and One Christian Dilettante's Tortured Experience

Mawdsley, Alice

Cleveland State University

A Season in Hell: The Curse of Rimbaud's Heredity

Miller, Edward

Calvin College

Emilia Pardo Bazáns Religious Short STories and Saint Stories: A Reflection of her Christianity

Mitchell, Phyllis

Wheaton College

A Brith Announced: The Incarnation in Spanish Golden Age Theater

Oyola, Eliezer

Evangel University

From the 'Romancero' to Don Juan de Marco

Partie, David

Liberty University

Pitchforks in the Road: Rhetorical Shifts in Une Saison en enfer

Pieslak, Dixie

Azusa Pacific University

I Wrote the Text I Use and I Use the Text I Wrote

Rossi, Max

Azusa Pacific University

Contribution and Recovery: Antonio Sanchez Valverde (1729-90) and the Enlightenment in Hispanic America

Sanchez Mora, Elena

Saint John's University

Three Examples of Christian Hispanic Women

Savage, Alan

Wheaton College

A Grief Examined: An Early Huguenot Expression

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College

Lessons from the Latin American Church

Shook, David J.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Fe and Beginning Spanish Textbooks: Impacts on the Cultural Integratino of Beginning Learners

Slagter, Cynthia

Calvin College

The Christian and the Postmodern Novel

Smith, David

Stapleford Centre

The Curious Idea of a Christian Teaching Method

Snyder, Owen L.

Indiana Wesleyan University

Scriptures and Songs in the Spanish Classroom

Solorzano, Aroldo

Azusa Pacific University

Rethinking the Goals of the Elementary Level Language Courses in Christian Universities

Stanley-Thorne, Carol

Atlantic Baptist University

Language and Culture: An inseperable pair

Takalo, Ron

Northwestern College

Pronouns and Paradigms

Ten Hisen, Dwight

Calvin College

Power Point in the Literature Classroom

Towles, David

Liberty University

Total-Immersion Institutes as an Aid to Evangelism

Villasenor, Julia A. and Silvia Garzia Edwards

Malone College

In Their Own Words: The Use of Oral Histories in the Second Language Classroom

Wood, Hadley

Point Loma Nazarene University

Michel Foucault and Literary Criticism: A Christian Perspective

Zandstra, Dianne

Calvin College

Creation and Incarnation in Borges

Ziefle, Helmut

Wheaton College

The Case for Christian FL Readers: The Challenges and Benefits of Creating and Using a Christian Reader in the FL Classroom

Zinszer, Judy

Anderson University

Christian Ethics in the Latin Workplace

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Papers Presented at Point Loma Nazarene University, April 6-8, 2000

                                     Abstracts of papers can be found  here

Presenter

Institution

Title

Acker, Geof 

Belhaven College

Teaching German Literature from a Christian Perspective

 Anderson, Aleta

Westmont College

Coming to Grips as Christian Scholars with the Holocaust and Still Love Thy Neighbor

 Barr, Jennie

Anderson University

Overseas Orientation

Bierling, Marilyn 

Calvin College

¿Judas o Maximón?  Perspectives on Religious Syncretism

 Collier, Mary 

Westmont College  

French for English Majors

 Clevenger, Sandra

Calvin College  

The Ironic Use of Religion in Ramón Sender's Requiem por un campesino español

 Defferding, Victoria  

George Fox University

Mysticism:  Old World Meets New World

 De Vries, Herman

Calvin College

Poet, Pastor, and "Natural" Disaster:  Reading Johann Rist

Dickson, David

Biola University  

Boys, Men And Angels:  Julio y su ángel

 Dixon, Dick

Taylor University

Popular Religion in Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones peruanas

 Docter, Mary

Westmont College

Language at Work:  Building a Successful Internship Program

Evans, Jan 

Calvin College

A Humane Alternative to the Language Laboratory:  Conversation

Foley, Christian

Liberty University  

Ionesco's Bald Soprano:  An "Absurd" World without God FacesIts Doom

 Fox, Timothy

Anderson University

The Prose Fiction of Leopoldo Lugones:  Synaesthesia and the Search for Spiritual Experience

 García, Arelis

Universidad Nacional Evangélica  

El Instituto de Estudios del Caribe

 Garzia-Edwards, Silvia et al 

Malone College

The Deconstruction of the Traditional Macho Image in Allende

 Guerrero, Juan

Asuza Pacific University

A Sense of Christian Mission in Teaching a Foreign Language

 Hamlow, June                    

Azusa Pacific University

Strategies for Vocabulary Practice in Intermediate Language

 Kepner, Christine

Wheaton College

Saura and Calderón:  The Timelessness of El gran teatro del mundo

 Koene, Jacoba et al 

Anderson University

Immersions:  Getting Your Students to Speak the Language!

 Konyndyk, Irene et al 

Calvin College

                                Studentteacher supervision issues-bringing our faith to bear

 Koffi, Ettien

Houghton College

Why the Missionary Cannot Pray

 Kronmeyer, Olga

Liberty University

Ionesco's The New Tenant: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods

 Lamse, James

Calvin College

The Other Realm:  Dealing with Signs of the Kingdom in Works of Secular Authors

Messer, Betty 

Taylor University

Faith, Spanish, and Urban Ministry:  Living and Learning in Miami

  McConnell, Kathryn

Point Loma Nazarene University

A Convergence of the Arts:  Saura's Elisa vida mía and the Literary Tradition

 Mitchell, Jacqueline

Point Loma Nazarene University

Archetypes and Symbols in El Mariachi

 Mitchell, Phyllis et al 

Wheaton College

I Just Threw Out My Textbook.  Now What?

Morgan, Newell 

Northwestern Nazarene University

The Forgotten Chapter

 Partie, Dave

Liberty University  

The Weight and Weightlessness of Existence in Selected Plays of Eugene Ionesco

Pyper, Marcie 

Calvin College

CALL It Good? One Christian's Response to Computer-Assisted Language Learning

 Savage, Alan

Wheaton College

Cinéma Vérité:  On Teaching French Film

Scott, Lindy 

 

Wheaton College

The Christian Transformation of Latin American Culture:  The Lives of Gonzalo Baez-Camargo, Gabriela Mistral, and John Mackay

 Severson, Marilyn

Seattle Pacific University

Refuge and Resistance:  Response to the Holocaust in France

Shaffer, Clint 

Wheaton College

Multiple-Choice Meetings and the Ethics of the Personal

Slagter, Cynthia 

Calvin College

Developing Discerning Viewers

 Solorzano, Aroldo

Azusa Pacific University

Foreign Language Methodology:  Listening, the Neglected Skill

 Stanley-Thorne, Carol

Atlantic Baptist University

Meeting the Needs of Adults in the L2 Classroom

 Takalo, Ron

Northwestern College

Ethnographic Studies, Language and Culture:  a Natural Combination

 Wisely, Andrew

Anderson University

The Urge for Continuity:  Conversion in fin-de-siècle Austrian Autobiography

 Wood, Hadley

Point Loma Nazarene University

Corneille, Rotrou, and the Conversion Play

 Ziefle, Helmut

Wheaton College

The Purpose and Future of the Human Race - A Comparison of the Christian Worldview with Nietzsche's and Hesse's

Ziemann, Michael 

Seattle Pacific University

Lonesome in a Crowd:  The Man Who Opened the Berlin Wall

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Papers Presented at Wheaton College, April 5 -7, 2001

Beatson, Jennifer 

Gordon College

“Lord, please help them with the subjunctive!”

Bierling, Marilyn

Calvin College

“Language Through Song”

Burton, B. 

Liberty University

“Teaching the film version of Zola’s ‘Germinal’”

Edwards, Silvia and Villasenor, Julia 

Malone College

“Murals: Creating Walls of Faith, Hope, Community”

De Vreis, Herman 

Calvin College

“Studying Scriptural and Christian Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning during the Language Class”

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

“The Cardinal Points of Borges’ Prose and ‘El evangelio según Marcos’”

Foley, Christian

Liberty University

“Biblical Self-justification in Gide’s La Symphonie Pastorale”

“French Classics in Film”

Guerrero, Juan

Azusa Pacific University

“The Columbus Evangelicals Should Know”

Koene, Piet 

Northwestern College

“Compliance or Revolution: Historical Reasons for Acquiescence and Deference in Honduran Culture”

Koffi, Ettien

Saint Cloud State University

“ The Causes of Linguistic Insecurity among Missionaries in the Francophone World: Findings and Classroom Applications”

Kronmeyer, Olga

Liberty University

“Physical Blindness and Spiritual Blindness in Gide’s Pastoral Symphony”

McConnell,Kathryn

Point Loma Nazarene University

“Transcending Space, Time and Reality in Carlos Saura’s Goya en Burdeos”

Mitchell, Phyllis 

Wheaton College

“’I Just Threw Out My Textbook. Now What?’ Part Two”

Morgan, Newell 

Northwest Nazarene College

“‘The Mission’: Fiction and Fact about the Jesuit Missions in Paraguay”

Parkyn, Linda,   Beaney, John and  Yunez, Kim

Messiah College

“Pedagogy is Political: Teaching Language Involves Historical, Cultural, Social, Economic, and Religious Assumptions”

Pieslak, Dixie  and Hamlow, June 

Azusa Pacific University

“Ideas for Using Art Collections in the Foreign Language Classroom”

Pyper, Marcie

Calvin College

“Affect and song”

Poggemiller, Helmuth 

Liberty University

“Young Werther and Childe Harold"

“Gide’s Pastor: A Predator”

 Rieken, Uwe

Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Chicago

“Using art and other materials to stimulate interest in German culture and language.”

Rossi, Max

Azusa Pacific University

“ Released Learning: A Strategic Approach to Teaching Spanish”

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College

“ Economic Globalization as seen by Latin American Evangelicals”

Smith, David 

Calvin College

“Does God dwell in the detail? Faith, Virtue and Grammar Instruction”

Takalo, Ronald 

Northwestern College

“In Their Own Words: Recent Immigrants Tell Their Stories”

Thery, Chantal

 

 

University of Montpellier (France), Institut Mediterraneen de Langues

“Partnership for Service Learning: Study Program in Southern France combined with Volunteer work and Community Service”

Van Loan Aguilar, Julia 

Eastern College

“Interpreting the ‘New World’ in the Light of Scripture: Christopher Columbus and Fray Toribio de Benavente”

Van Til Rusthoven, Thea

Redeemer University College

“Teaching Sartre’s Huis Clos (No Exit) from a Christian Perspective”

West, Donna

 

Trinity Christian College

“Vygotskian-based Hospitality Exchange: Import to Foreign Language Pedagogy”

Wisely, Andrew

 

Anderson University

“Loosing Grip, Taking Flight: Trapeze Spirituality in Wim Wenders’s Far Away, So Close and Henri Nouwen’s Sabbatical Journey”

Wood, Hadley

 

Point Loma Nazarene University

“Jean Rotrou’s Le Veritable Saint Genest: The Dramatization of Transcendence and Personal Conversation”

Woodard, Branson

Liberty University

“Gide’s Pastoral Symphony: Pygmalion Revisited”

Yorba-Gray, Galen Beckwith

Vanguard University

“Judas Maccabeus, Fernán González and the Coming Kingdom”

Zandstra, Dianne

Calvin College

“Culture Through Song”

Ziemann, Michael

Seattle Pacific University

“For God and Adenauer’- Subversion, Slander and Murder to Silence the East German Church”

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Papers presented at Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, April 4-6, 2002  

Aguilar, Julia 

Eastern College

“Using Technology to Contextualize Foreign Language Teaching”

 Beck, Lois K.

Messiah College  

“Promoting Racial Sensitivity Through the Literature of Africa and the Diaspora”  

Clevenger, Sandra

Calvin College  

“Medieval Literature from a Christian Perspective”  

 Dixon, Dick

Taylor University  

“The Cardinal Points of Borges’ Prose and ‘El evangelio según Marcos’”  

Dykstra-Pruim, Pennylynn 

Calvin College

“Thinking Outside, Inside, and All Around ‘The Box’ –  the Future of Curriculum Development”

Foley, Christian 

Liberty University

“The Vision of the dentist in episodes from Lizardi and Márquez”

Guerrero, Juan B. 

Azusa Pacific University

“Language and Culture Learning and the Christian Perspective”

Gutiérrez-Sands, Isolina 

Fresno Pacific University

“English and Spanish Academic Language Development for Mexican-American Students in College Level Spanish”

Hamlow, June

Azusa Pacific University  

“The 1492 Expulsion of Jews and Moors from Spain”  

Holland Barlar, Sharenda 

Wheaton College

"Methods in Critiquing and Challenging Students’ Faith in the Foreign Language Literature Course"

Horst, Ray E. 

Eastern Mennonite University

"Hispanic Theatre: I Do and I Remember"

Koch, Rita 

Taylor University

"Teaching Online: Gleanings from LERN"

Koene, Jacoba 

Anderson University

"A Thematic Approach to Integrating Faith and Learning in Upper Division Spanish Courses"

Koffi, Ettien

Saint Cloud State University

"Morphological Fossilization and Communicative Incompetence"

Kronmeyer, Olga 

Liberty University

"Messages from God in Márquez' short stories"

Loaiza, Rebecca 

Houghton College

"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Combining Styles and Strategies for All Students'Success"

Majireck, Barbara 

Messiah College  

“The Seasons of Lotte”  

Mitchell, Phyllis and Alan Savage 

Wheaton College

"Surveying Student Perceptions of Faith and Learning in the General Education Foreign Language Classroom"

Pieslak, Dixie 

Azusa Pacific University

"Suggestions for Pursuing Language Learning Independently"

Poggemiller, Helmuth  

Liberty University

"Goethe's Romanticism"

Raak TenHuisen, Dwight E.

Calvin College

"German Protestant Geography and Hagiography in Colonial Brazil?: Providentia and Alterity in Hans Stadenís Wahrhaftige Historia."

Rossi, Máximo

Azusa Pacific University  

"The Neglected Paradox: Integration of Faith and Administration in Christian Colleges and Universities"  

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College  

"Current Christianity in Cuba"  

Scovel, Tom

San Francisco State University  

"Learning Grammar by Ear"  

Solórzano, Aroldo

Azusa Pacific University

"Yearning for God: Gómez de Avellaneda's Religious Works"

Smith, David

Calvin College

"The CALL Research Agenda and the Christian College"

Sullivan,Michael 

Cornerstone University  

"Calderón as 'Glossator': Sonnet Artistry in Sueños hay que verdad son"

Towles, David 

Liberty University

"Existentialism in Márquez' 'La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar'"

van Til Rusthoven, Thea

Redeemer University College

"Teaching Flaubert’s Madame Bovary from a Christian Perspective"

 Woodard, Branson

Liberty University

"Authorial voice in selected short fiction of Gabriel García Márquez"

Woodbury, Socorro M. 

Wheaton College

 "Addressing God and Others in Spanish: Usted, Tú, or Vos?"

Yorba-Gray,Galen Beckwith

Vanguard University

"Scriptural Authority in the Quixote: Target for Subversion?"

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Papers presented at Azuza Pacific University, Azuza, California, April 3-5, 2003

Anderson, Aleta

Westmont College

Teaching German Studies with a Christian Perspective

Beaney, John

Messiah College

Modern Language Instruction at the Christian College

Berhó, Debbie

George Fox University

Proficiency and Faith Reflection through Reader’s Theatre: A practical unit on Federico García Lorca’s La Casa de Bernard

Bierling, Marilyn 

Calvin College

Speaking to “you” in Honduras

Bratt, Wallace

Calvin College

Paradise Still Lost:  A Tale of Two (German) Lives

Daubert, Russell

Christian Heritage College

A Novel’s Gratuitous Hero in André Gide’s Lafcadio’s Adventures

Defferding, Victoria 

George Fox University

Language through the Psalms

Dixon, Richard

Taylor University

Female Oppression and Victimization in García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba.

Docter, Mary 

Westmont College

What's New in the Lab?

Elías, Leonor 

Westmont College

Calderón's Duelos de amor y lealtad: A Metaphor for Seventeenth Century Politics

Evans, Jan 

Baylor University

San Manuel Bueno, mártir:  A Study in the Ethical Life

Foley, Chris

Liberty University

Lafcadio’s ‘The Millipede’

Fox, Timothy

Anderson University

Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York:  A Judeo-Christian ethic without God?

Hamlow, June 

Azusa Pacific University

The Use of Aerial Archaeology in Latin America

Kepner, Christine 

Wheaton College

The Discourse of Identity in Julia Alvarez' In The Name of Salomé

Koene, Piet 

Northwestern College

Integrating the Bible into the Language Classroom: A Practical Approach to Key Biblical Passages and their Relevance to Language

Konyndyk, Irene 

Calvin College

Multisensory Structured French:  A Christian Imperative

Kronmeyer, Olga

Liberty University

“The Curse of the Bastard in Lafcadio’s Adventures

Kugler, Lindsey 

Wheaton College

Spanish Culture: A Marginalizing Force for    Evangelicalism

Lee, Chang 

Azusa Pacific University

Synthetic (V&N) Compounds in Spanish

Mitchell, Phyllis 

Wheaton College

Thy kingdom come:  Religious drama imagines Spanish nationhood

Norré, Sylvette 

George Fox University

Discovering and Commenting on Modern French Expressions of Biblical Origin

Nova, Sarah

Azuza Pacific University

A First-Year Christian Foreign Language Textbook: Challenges and Choices

Ramírez, Elvira

Eastern College

Realism and Spirituality in Galdos

Randall, Catherine 

Fordham University

Reforming Calvinism?  The Case of the Camisard Calvinists

Rossi, Maximo & Rossi, Maximo Joshua

Azuza Pacific University

Juxtaposed Father Figures in Calderon's La vida es sueño and Braveheart, Parts I and II

Savage, Alan 

Wheaton College

Singing the Kingdom of God in the Chansonnier Huguenot

Sawyer, Krista 

Wheaton College

Contemporary Catholic-Evangelical Relations in Spain

Shaffer, Clint 

Wheaton College

Women, Men, and the Words From the Cross: Gender and Acts of Reading in 17th Century Crucifixion Poetry

Shook, Tyler 

Wheaton College

Church in a Hair Salon: How the Evangelical Church Survives and Grows in Spain

Smith, David 

Calvin College

What happens when Christian students read poetry? Some reflections on the pedagogical use of poems by Ernst Jandl

Can Faith Affect Theory in Linguistics? A Case Study of P. Verburg’s Linguistic Theory

Solórzano, Aroldo

Azuza Pacific University 

Creative Spiritual Poetry in the Classroom

Sullivan-Trainor, Deborah 

Bethel College

Subversive Simplicity: Learning Context and Prayer through Jeanne Guyon’s Prayer Guide

TenHuisen, Dwight 

Calvin College

Yerma as Faust:  Allusions to Goethe’s Faust in Lorca’s Yerma

Of Fathers and (dead) prodigal Sons: Goethe's Erlkönig and Rulfo's No oyes ladrar los perros

Tudorii, Angela 

Houghton Collegege

The Literary Discourse of the French Existentialism: a Challenge for the Christian Reader

Vogt, Eric 

Seattle Pacific University

The Vanitas Theme: Teaching for Devotion, Using Golden Age Spanish Sonnets & Scripture-Inspired Art

Weightman, Sandi 

Bethel College

The Devotional Manuals of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Wilkins, Jim 

Lee University

Developing Oral Proficiency in Post-Intermediate L2 Classes

Wisely, Andrew

Anderson University

The Judge and the Skeptic: Wolfgang Menzel’s Polemic Against Karl Gutzkow’s novel Wally die Zweiflerin (1835)

Yorba-Gray, Gaylen 

Vanguard University

Don Quixote till Kingdom Come: The (Un)Realized Eschatology of Miguel de Unamuno

Zandstra, Dianne

Calvin College

God, Art and Suffering in Dios no nos quiere contentos

Ziemann, Michael

Seattle Pacific University

Just a Poodle After All…

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Papers presented at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, March 25-27, 2004

Abel, Sheri 

Wheaton College

“Answering the Call to Love the Stranger: Using French Films to Engage Students in Meaningful Cross-Cultural Viewing”

 Beatson, Jennifer

Gordon College

“Defending the core language requirement”

“Scripture (Ab)use in the FL classroom: Practices, Perceptions and Potential”

Bierling, Marilyn  TenHuisen, Dwight

Calvin College

“Spanish Language and Literature in the Study Abroad Context”

Bennett, Scott 

Azusa Pacific University

“Heed the C.A.L.L.?: Practical Tools for Teaching Literature and Culture with Web-based Resources”

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

“Readers in the Arts and the Art of Reading”

Clevenger,Sandra

Calvin College

“Teaching Spanish Medieval Literature from a Christian Perspective”

Chase, David Hauber, Melissa Kachikis, Alisa Larsen,  A.J.

Wheaton College (students)

“Between Two Worlds: The German Evangelical Response to Domestic Sociopolitical Issues”

Dangelmajer-McKeown, Joanne

Moravian College

“Controversy and Ecstasy in the Literary Output of Anna Catherine Emmerich and Dr. Antoine Despine”

De Vries, Herman

Calvin College

"Hauke Haien's Hubris: Reading Storm's Schimmelreiter through the Lens of Wendell Berry."

 Dennis-Bay, Laura

Cumberland College

“French Film in the Christian Classroom:  My Experiences at Cumberland College”

Dixon, Dick

Anderson University

“Borgesian Narrative and <<El evangelio según Marcos>>”

Kargleder, Charles

Spring Hill College

“A Perspective on Fray Luis de Leon's, De los nombres de Cristo

Koch, Rita

Taylor University

“Historias—Stories from an MK’s Experience”

 Pieslak, Dixie

Azusa Pacific University

“When Students Need a Repeat”

Prill, Valery

Lipscomb University

“The Interaction of Christian Faith and Culture:  Using French Film to Promote Critical Thinking and Spiritual Growth”

Roberts, Corey       Good, Jennifer Ziemann, Michael

Indiana University Baylor University  Seattle Pacific University       

“Teaching German Film in the Christian Foreign Language Classroom”

 Rhodes, Dean

Goshen College

“Service Learning: A Practical Application for the Spanish Curriculum”

Scoggins, David

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

“Western Christianese? Towards a Christian Pedagogy in the European Languages”

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College

“Singing Off Key: Uses and Abuses  of "Christian" Songs in our Foreign Language Devotionals”

“The Latin American Church and the War in Iraq: Why Didn’t We Listen to Our Latino Sisters and Brothers? “

Shaffer, Clint 

Wheaton College

“And I desire not to bear the guilt of it’: Matthias Claudius, Günter Grass, and German Opposition to the Iraq War”

Smith, David 

Calvin College

“Unraveling Creation: The Theology of Murder in Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand

“Some Theses concerning the Use of Scripture in Language Classes”

TenHuisen, Dwight 

Calvin College

“Reading Scripture in the Classroom:  Colonial Spanish America”

 Vos-Camy,Jolene

Calvin College

“Developing ‘Un air de famille’ for the Christian Mind"

 Udry, Susan

 

“Hating Marie, Loving Terence:  Love, Hate, and Student Perceptions of Christian Authority in the World Literature Class

Wisely, Andrew

Anderson University

“God, Graveyards, and Spirits: Indifference and Prayer in Heinrich Böll's Und sagte kein einziges Wort (And Said Not a Word)

Yorba-Gray, Gaylen 

Vanguard University

"Creating an Interior Narrative World In Second Language Acquisition: The Analogy of Augustine's Confessions"

Zandstra, Dianne Slagter, Cynthia

Calvin College

“Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Faith and Pedagogy in the Literature Classroom”

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Papers presented at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois, March 31 – April 2, 2005

 

Abel, Sheri 

Wheaton College

The Stupid Aristocracy of Skin”- Speaking out against the status quo”

 Beatson, Jennifer

Gordon College

“Strengthening ties across communities: Two-way benefits of the LaVida Y.E.S.! Program”

 Berho, Debbie

George Fox University “Medieval Spirituality: Suggestions for a Mini-Pilgrimage Field Trip"

Bierling, Marilyn

Calvin College

“A Special Topics Course on Hispanic Immigration to the U.S.”

Bennett, Scott 

Azusa Pacific University

To Show or Not to Show?: Politics, Violence and Postmodernity in Contemporary Latin American Film”

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

“Survival, Betrayal and Neighborly Love at the Border”

 

Corrie, Cathleen

Baylor University

“The Absence of God in the Reading of Marguerite de Navarre”

Defferding, Victoria

George Fox University

“Devotions with Santa Teresa”

 Dennis-Bay, Laura

Cumberland College

 

Cour, Culte et Culture in Two Works by Madame de Lafayette”

Dixon, Dick

Anderson University

“Jorge Icaza’s  Huasipungo:  A Portrait of Exclusion”

Language of Presentation: Spanish

Evans, Jan

Baylor University “On Miguel de Unamuno's Use of Faith and Reason”

Good, Jennifer

Baylor University

“The Other Taboo:  The Word in Christa Wolf’s Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages”

“Trans-national lives in Caroline Link’s Nirgendwo in Afrika (2003)”

Harkema, Leslie Joy

Calvin College (student) “Fortunata y Benina: “Angels” Galdosian Spirituality”

Hamlow, June

Azusa Pacific University “Current Theories Regarding the Origin of the Basque Language”

Lee, Chang Soo

Azusa Pacific University “Head position in Spanish compounding”

Moyle, Matthew

Wheaton College

“Beyond Good and Evil:  The Counter-cultural imagination of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt”

Nova, Sarah

Azusa Pacific University

“La fragilité du bien”

Ramírez, Elvira

Eastern University      

“Mensaje del Prólogo de la Historia de las Indias

 

Schreiber,Anne

Wheaton College

Eine Hand voll Gras: A stranger among his own”

Scoggins, David

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

“Foreign Languages for Christians?  Towards a Christian Pedagogy in Foreign Language Courses”

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College

“The Canto Cristiano of Leandro Alvarez

Shaffer, Clint 

Wheaton College

“A Place at the Table: The Feast and Famine of Exile in Jan Schütte’s Drachenfutter (“Dragon Chow”)

Slagter, Cynthia

Calvin College “Rediscovering Reading Aloud: Elocution and Respect for the Text”

Smith, David 

Calvin College

“The Spiritual Ecology of the Language Classroom”

TenHuisen, Dwight 

Calvin College

 “Gradational Oppositions, Liminality, and Hagiographic Transculturation in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios”

 

Van Til Rusthoven, Thea 

Redeemer University College

“Presentation and Christian Critique of W. Maxwell's Accelerative

Integrated Method" (AIM)

 

Vogt, Eric

Seattle Pacific University “John Wesley’s Sephardic Portion: Psalm 63”

 

 Vos, Morris

Western Illinois University

“Higher Values Abroad”

Wisely, Andrew

Baylor University

“Confessions in the Void:  Reading in the Ritual of Jugendweihe in Junger Freier Blick 2004

Wood, Hadley

 

Point Loma Nazarene University “Student Outcomes Assessment for Foreign Language Programs”

“Grading as an Act of Grace”

 Zadi, Samuel

Wheaton College

“Shall We Be the Giver or the Receiver: Sambene Ousmane and the Misunderstanding of What it Means to Share With Those Who Do Not Have Enough.”

Zandstra, Dianne

Calvin College

“Strategies of Religious Identification in the Inca Garcilaso and in Guaman Poma de Ayala”
Ziemann, Michael Seattle Pacific University

“The Third Reich’s Colonial Epic: Ohm Krueger (‘Uncle Krueger’)

“A Thorn in Simba’s Paw”

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Papers presented at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, March 30 – April , 2006

 

Abel, Sheri
 
Wheaton College "Preparing Faithful Teachers and Scholars"

Agosto, Victor
 

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

"La Celestina and the Significance of Christian Faith"

Beatson, Jennifer

Gordon College

"The Evolution of Yanqui Representations and the Relations in the Poetic and Novelistic Works of Claribel AlegrМa"

"Exposing Students to Immigration Issues: A Multimedia Approach"

Bennett, Scott 

Azusa Pacific University

"(Sac)religious Imagery in the Novels of David Toscana"

Boswell, Kate
 
Baylor University "Love and Tradition in ChrИtien de Troyes' Knight of the Cart"
Buteyn, Mary
 
Calvin College "When Evangelical Is not 'evangelisch': Young American Evangelical Self-Identification in Post-Christian Germany"

Carvill, Barbara

Calvin College

"Betrayal and Neighborly Love at the Border"

 

Clevenger, Sandra
 
Calvin College "Teaching Renaissance Literature from a Christian Perspective"

Cochran, Diana
 

Covenant College

"Imago Dei: Made in the Image of God"

Crater, Catherine

Spring Arbor University “L2 and the Learning Disabled: Support Services and Alternative Evaluations”

Dennis-Bay, Laura

Cumberland College

 "P is for poИsie and passion, not peur: Helping Students Connect with French 19th Century Poetry"

Dixon, Richard
 

Anderson University

"The Quest for Manhood in Mario Vargas Llosa La ciudad y los perros"

Doctor, Mary
 
Westmont College "Requiring Cross-Cultural Studies"
Dykstra-Pruim, Pennylynn Calvin College "The Post-Communicative Era: New Directions in American World Language Education and the NACFLA Niche"

Ellis, Scotty
 

Baylor University "The Word Made Flesh: Language as the Incarnation of Thought in Augustine's On Christian Doctrine and its Limits in Dante's Divine Comedy"

Fetzer, Glenn
 

Calvin College

"Reading Claudel with Jean-Louis ChrИtien"

Fisher, Kristen
 
Baylor University "The Humanistic Tradition of Medieval and Renaissance Education: A Student's Perspective of the Christian University"
Haskett, Kelsey
 

 

Trinity Western University "Feminism and Spirituality in George Sand's Indiana"

Hamlow, June

Azusa Pacific University "Tartessus of Spain"
Koch, Rita Indiana Wesleyan University "Revising the Structure of the Major and Minor in a Small Language Department"

"A Different Perspective on Teaching Hispanic Culture in the U.S."

Kargleder, Charles
 
Spring Hill College "Christian Poetry in Medieval Spain: A Study of Jorge Manrique's Coplas por la muerte de su padre"
 Kepner, Christine Goring & Phyllis Mitchell Wheaton College "Comer Caliente: The Meaning of Food in Un calor tan cercano and La voz dormida"
Lee, Chang Soo Azusa Pacific University "Syllabification in Spanish"
Loaiza, Rebecca, Jessica Stack, & Sarah Allen Houghton College "A Conversation Curriculum Based on Songs from Leonardo Alvarez' El camino"
Motyka, Matthew Santa Clara University "Mysticism and Politics in Pierre Corneille's Polyeucte"

Murray, Sarah-Jane

Baylor University

"Celtic Visions of Heaven and Hell: Marie de France's Feminine Translation in The Purgatory of St. Patrick"

 Newbold, Jan
 
Anderson University "Lessons from Jacques Doillon's Ponette"

Nova, Sarah

Azusa Pacific University

Christian characteristic of the French Romanticism as presented by Chateaubriand in his Atala"

Osborn, Terry

University of Connecticut    

World Language Education and Social Justice

Pardue, Susan University of Mary Hardin-Baylor "Including Profession Specific Courses and Crossing the Gap Between Second and Third Year"
Piper, Marcie & Cynthia G. Slagter, Calvin College "A Cuban Refugee Story"

 

Rall, Harland

Abilene Christian University

"Magic Realism: (Dis)covering Margins for Spiritual Practice"
"Setting Language Proficiency Standards for the Major and Minor"

Roggendorff, Paul Trinity Christian College "Tying Assessment to Curriculum Revision"                                            "The State of Fear: Reading the Aftermath of Hobbes' Leviathan in Spanish American Literature"

Smith, David 
Calvin College “Three Relationships Between Ethics and Foreign Language Pedagogy"

SolСrzano, Aroldo
 

Azusa Pacific University

"Livin' la Vida Loca: Carrillo, Sawa, and the Bohemian Lifestyle"

Stevenson, Jeff   Seattle Pacific University "Combining Mission and Academic Opportunities"
Sullivan-Trainor, Deborah  Bethel University "Flora Tristan and the Figure of the Woman Writer in 19th Century France"
Thomas, Michael & Jan E. Evans
 
Baylor University "Variations on Christian Conversion in Pepita JimИnez and San Manuel Bueno, m rtir"
Triller, Mark   Trinity Christian College "Delivering Christian Hospitality in a Foreign Land"
VillaseЯor, Julia   Malone College "Financial Concerns, Courses, and Credit Transfers"

Vos-Camy, Jolene  & Sarah DeVries
 

Calvin College "Faith and Love in Catherine Bernard's Les Malheurs de l'amour"

"Challenges and Rewards of the Host Family Experience"

Weppler, Amanda
 
Baylor University "Gaining Truth from Familiar Tales: Examining Lancelot and Guinevere"
Wisely, Andrew
 
Baylor University "The Past is a Foreign Country: Remorse as 'Lost Icon' in W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction"
Wood, Hadley Point Loma Nazarene University :Serious Monkey Business: Potential Uses of Realia in the Foreign Language Classroom"
Wilkerson, Carol Don Olive & Aaron Hedges
 

Carson-Newman College

"A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Liberation Theology"
Language of Presentation: English with Spanish examples

Yorba-Gray, Galen

Point Loma Nazarene University

"The Maccabean Recollection in the Poema de Fern n Gonzalez"

Zandstra, Dianne & Marilyn Bierling

Calvin College


"Revising the Structure of the Major and Minor in a Large Language Department"
Zdansky, Hannah Baylor University "Romancing Bernard of Clairvaux: ChrИtien de Troyes and the Four Degrees of Love"
Ziemann, Michael Seattle Pacific University "From Ghettoes to Furnaces: The 'Final Solution' 1941-1945"

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Papers presented at Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, March 29-31 , 2007

 

Abel, Sheri

Wheaton College

Inch’Allah Dimanche: a story of foreignness, isolation, hope, and welcome

Arrington, Teresa

Blue Mountain College

“Classroom Strategies for Foreign Language Students with

Disabilities”

Beatson, Jennifer

Gordon College “Film as a Tool for Critical Reflection in the Advanced Spanish Classroom”

Beauclair, Michelle

Seattle Pacific University

“God’s Presence in His Absence in Marguerite Duras’ L’Amant

Bennett, Scott 

&  Díaz, Dorenyse

Azusa Pacific University

“Tijuana Border Blues: Visions of Mexican Reality Found in Roberto Castillo Udiarte’s La última función del mago de los espejos  

 Bierling, Marilyn

Calvin College “Speaking ‘to you’: the Spanish dative” 

Calvin, Lisa 

 

Indiana State University “Yerba Mate and the Church, Yerba Mate in the Church”

“Using The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time as a Pedagogical Tool to Discuss Learning Disabilities in the FL Methods Course”

Clevenger, Sandra 

Calvin College

“Teaching the Baroque in Literature from a Christian Perspective

 

Crater, Catherine

Spring Arbor University “L2 and the Learning Disabled: Support Services and Alternative Evaluations”

Evans, Jan

Baylor University “Treading a Fine Line:  China’s Interest in Christianity and Its Relationship to the Practice of the Faith”

Collins-Blair, Marlene 

Houghton College “Persecuted for Unrighteousness Sake: The 'Not-So-Holy' Scriptures in La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

 

Daw, Cara (student)

Santa Clara University

“Community-Based Learning: A Christian Obligation to Civic Engagement”

Dennis-Bay, Laura

University of the Cumberlands “Bad Guests?  Bad Hosts?  Viewing Dîner des cons in a Christian Context”

De Vries, Herman 

Calvin College

“The Dutch Identity Crisis”

Dixon, Dick 

Anderson University “’Defining the Motherland Affectively’ in Ricardo Miró’s  Patria

Diana González,

Northwestern College “All Languages Are Created Equal
Haskett, Kelsey Trinity Western University

Radical Social Justice in George Sand’s Le Compagnon du tour de France

Kargleder, Charles

Spring Hill College

“Doubt, Anguish and Betrayal:  A Study of Julieta Pinto's

El despertar de Lazaro

Kielstra, Paula (student)

Calvin College “Love and Friendship in Catherine Bernard's Les Malheurs de l'amour: Eléonor d'Yvrée
Koene, Piet Northwestern College “Professional Court Interpretation and the Christian Professor”

Konyndyk,Irene 

Calvin College

“Students with Learning Disabilities CAN Learn a Foreign Language: The Multisensory, Structured (Metacognitive) French Program Developed at Calvin College as a Model”

Kepner, Christine Goring & Phyllis Mitchell Wheaton College

“Dreams of the Future, Realities of the Past, Disappointments of the Present: Marcela Serrano’s Hasta siempre, mujercitas and Almudena Grandes’ Atlas de geografía humana

Lee, Chang

Azusa Pacific University “Stress in Spanish”

McKeown, Joanne 

Moravian College “The Sequestering of God in Novels by Mme Cottin and Mme de Tencin”

McGiness, Laura 

Calvin College “Seeking the Lord While He May be Found: Spiritual Abandonment in Three Spanish Poems of the Golden Age”

Miller, Edward and Kori VanderKooi

Calvin College “Simple, Yet Profound Faith Lessons from the Poetry of José Luis García Suárez” 

Motyka, Matthew

Santa Clara University “The Vulnerability of Virtue in Pierre Corneille’s The Death of Pompey

Nova, Sarah

Azusa Pacific University “Israel Reborn: A Crisis Revealed with ‘L'Affaire Dreyfus’”

Pellettieri, Jill 

Santa Clara University “Integrating language and social justice in a ‘Standards-based’ model of foreign language teaching”  
Pyper, Marcie , Cynthia  Slagter, &

Karen  Holleman,

Calvin College “Examining Death in the FL Classroom”

Rall, Harland

Abilene Christian University “In the Circle of the Gods:  Divinity and ‘La Malinche’?” 

Ramirez, Eduardo

Eastern University “Multimedia in the Spanish culture class”

 Ramirez, Elvira

Eastern University

“The concept of Love in Grimalte y Gradissa” 

Rodríguez de Vásquez, Maria

Calvin College “Teachers’ Reflections on Literacy Strategies”

Roggendorff, Paul 

Trinity Christian College “New Age Solution to the Age Old Problem of Post-Colonialism: An Examination of Laura Esquivel’s La ley de amor

Roop, Alexander

Wheaton College “Rubén Darío's poetic logos in El salmo de la pluma (1889) 

Savage, Alan

Wheaton College Rosetta:  An Important Christian Film?”

Smith, David 
Calvin College “The Hermeneutics of Charity and the Literature Survey Course” 

Scott, Lindy

Wheaton College “The Short Term Missions Boom: Building on the Positive and Overcoming the Negative through our Foreign Language Classes”

“Mi casa es tu casa: A Biblical Perspective on the Current Immigration Situation

Schreiber,Anne

Wheaton College "Modes of Resistance among Christians in former East Germany”

Shaffer, Clinton  

Wheaton College “Where the Road Ends: German Desire and European Borders in Post-Unification Film” 

Solórzano, Aroldo

Azusa Pacific University “Eros and Redemption in Enrique Gomez Carrillo’s El evangelio del amor  

St. Louis, Judith

Calvin College “Language and Cultural Learning through Foreign Feature Films”

TenHuisen, Dwight

Calvin College “Self-emptying as a cross-cultural engagement strategy:  Kenosis in A Season of Migration to the North

Tinkey, Patricia

Grove City College

“Analysis of Integration of Faith and Foreign Language Learning Practices

Van Til Rusthoven,Thea 

Redeemer University College “The Teaching and Grading of Writing: Can the Christian Teacher Sheathe the Red Pen?”  

Varona, Lucia  and Daw, Cara

Santa Clara University “Constructing a Senior Thesis: The Participatory Research Method”

Vos-Camy, Jolene

Calvin College Cuisine et dépendances: Christian Values in the French Kitchen”

West, Mark

Taylor University “Rings and Abels in Boccacio, Lessing and Lequyer”  

Wisely, Andrew

Baylor University

“Maternal Engagement: Charitable Biographies of Statelessness in Hannah Arendt's Men in Dark Times

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