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Elvia Andía Grágeda Receives Bolivian Literary Prize for her Debut Novel
Congratulations to SPPO associated faculty member Elvia Andía Grágeda, who recently won the Premio Guamán Poma de Ayala en Lengua Originaria, a national literary prize in Bolivia. Ms. Andía…
Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro Has Created The World's First Kichwa-English Dictionary
OSU Ph.D. student, Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro, has published the very first Kichwa-English dictionary in the world.
The goal of the dictionary is to empower Kichwa speakers and free…
Elvia Andía Grágeda: The World’s First Certified OPI Tester for Quechua
Elvia Andía Grágeda, Quechua instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University, recently became the first American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (…
OSU DACA Students Featured on PBS NewsHour
"For DACA students, it's hard to focus on a bright future when faced with deportation fears."
PBS NewsHour featured a story about OSU DACA Students in their "Rethinking College"…
ASC News: An interview with Dr. Elena Foulis on heritage language learning
This College of Arts & Sciences interview with Elena Foulis, senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, centers around her recently published open-access textbook…
SPPO Heritage Language Courses featured in The Lantern
"With heritage language learners, we focus a lot on identity, on herencia (heritage); we incorporate those experiences from the home that they can bring into the conversations that we have in…
Prof. Anna Babel on the Voices of Excellence Podcast
Associate Professor Anna Babel on how to support undocumented students
Anna Babel, associate professor of Hispanic linguistics, spent 17 years gathering ethnographic data for her 2018 book…
Ohio State Recognized as 1st Big Ten University to Administer Celpe-Bras Exam
Through the hard work of Dr. Lucia Costigan, Brazil's Instituto Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - INEP (National Institute for Teaching and Research) has recognized Ohio State as one of the few US…
Grad Student Elena Costello Provides Interpretation Training in Mexico
On January 5th and 6th 2019, SPPO Graduate Student Elena Costello provided a 16 hour, two day training to 60 repatriated Mexican-Americans/Dreamers in Mexico on becoming bilingual bicultural…