Frackman, Lenshyn use films in German outreach program in Virginia
Language coordinator Kyle Frackman and Ph.D. student Victoria Lenshyn of German and Scandinavian Studies presented an intensive German-language immersion weekend Sept. 18-20 at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
The program, attended by 30 German teachers and faculty from Virginia, was made possible by the Virginia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the Goethe Institute in Washington D.C., Sweet Briar College and the DEFA Film Library.
Lenshyn and Frackman developed the program, building on past AATG workshops sponsored by the DEFA Film Library in the Northeast and using materials from Wende Flicks, a series of the last films of East Germany.
The workshop consisted of film screenings, discussion, and collaborative development of teaching materials, which high school and college German teachers may use in their classes when integrating East German film into their instruction.
September 24, 2009.
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