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Colombo, Laura – Journal of International Students, 2014
It is late at night, after working all day on her postdoctoral research Laura Colombo is trying to wind down while drawing and jotting down thoughts in her notebook. She is in the living room/office of her apartment in Buenos Aires, the city where she was born and left when she was 26 years old to pursue her graduate studies in the United States…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Researchers, Study Abroad, Graduate Study

Ecke, Peter – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2000
Illustrates the potential of simulation techniques for the teaching of German as a foreign language at the beginner's level. Reviews arguments for the use of simulations in language teaching, suggests a step-by-step procedure for using simulations, and presents a set of ready-to-apply simulation scripts on the topic of eating and drinking in a…
Descriptors: German, Graduate Study, Introductory Courses, Second Language Instruction

Yaari, Monique – ADFL Bulletin, 2002
Presents French culture studies as an example of possible directions in graduate culture studies. Refers to a model based largely on the culture and civilization graduate concentration at Penn State University, which evolved alongside literature and language over the past 15 years. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, French, Graduate Study, Higher Education

Debicki, Andrew P. – ADFL Bulletin, 2001
Offers a personal portrait of graduate training and compares it to that of today. Discussing the appearance of polarization between research and teaching, emphasizes the importance of both in whatever the institutional setting and argues that the discovery of new knowledge should underlie the work of all postsecondary teachers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Graduate Study, Higher Education

Ward, Patricia A. – ADFL Bulletin, 2001
Examines graduate education and the constricted job market PhDs have encountered during the last decade. Addresses the mismatch between the kinds of positions available and the research agenda of graduate programs. Urges departments to keep a vision of a student-oriented program, articulated in a series of "ever-broadening contexts" through…
Descriptors: Departments, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Opportunities, Graduate Study

Glew, Ellen – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2000
Compares information gleaned from the Modern Language Association's "MLA Job Information List" seeking language program directors in 1996 and provides an overview of changes in the profession during that time. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Administrators, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Opportunities, German
Taylor, Cosette – TESL Canada Journal, 2001
One English-as-a-Second-language teacher living in Brazil offers insight into the acculturation process through letters written to friends and colleagues. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Language Teachers

ADFL Bulletin, 2003
Investigates how the continuing oversupply of PhDs in relation to the number of academic positions available in colleges and universities affects graduate education. Summarizes opinions about the meaning of professionalization and the roles that institutions, departments, and graduate students themselves share in the development of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Degrees, Graduate Students, Graduate Study

Janks, Hilary – Language Awareness, 1999
Discusses the use of student journals as a means of assessing the intellectual journey taken by students through a postgraduate course in critical language awareness. Shows how students construct their multiple identities in their journals and how these identities are transformed or conserved as they enter a new discourse community. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Graduate Study

Kamhi-Stein, Lia D. – TESOL Journal, 2000
Summarizes the perceived needs and areas of concern to nonnative (NNS) speaking teachers and teachers-in-preparation. Presents a rationale for addressing the perceived needs and concerns of NNS teachers-in-preparation in U.S.-Based Teaching English as a Second or Other Language master's programs. Describes how one program has redesigned its…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Study, Higher Education, Language Teachers
Cleve, John Van; Willson, A. Leslie – 1993
This book addresses the problem of the future of Germanics as a field of study at colleges and universities in the United States. It is noted that the study of Germanics has been losing tens of thousands of students for the past 25 years, that this slide downward is no longer attracting enough attention from the Germanics community, and if it…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, German, German Literature

Melin, Charlotte – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2000
Advocates broadening of professional development options for graduate students to take into account the disciplinary expertise and teaching practice needed for courses beyond the beginning and intermediate language sequence. Concludes that readings, workshops, and discussions with faculty allow graduate students to gain experience with the range…
Descriptors: College Faculty, German, Graduate Study, Higher Education

Thomas, Jean-Jacques – ADFL Bulletin, 1996
Discusses the focus of foreign-language graduate programs on preparing students for their careers. The article argues that the spread of teaching-methods courses and the interest in the utility of education has transformed these programs into hybrids that lack intellectual discipline. The article concludes graduate programs in foreign languages…
Descriptors: Careers, Course Objectives, Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries

Nagy, Ellen Manning – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2000
Provides an overview of the academic job market for PhDs in terms of skills and qualifications needed by job candidates and demonstrates how graduate students can begin to focus their educational efforts in the most relevant ways. Career development, placement options for departments, faculty, and students are also discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, Departments, Doctoral Degrees

King, Lynda J. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2000
Outlines how a Web site for a three-term German literature course at Oregon State University was created and used. Assesses the teaching of the Web-dependent version of the course, evaluates how the Internet enhances the course, and concludes by reporting on the response to the Web site. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Evaluation, German, Graduate Study
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