We are pleased to announce Eileen Glisan and Bonnie Adair-Hauck as our invited speakers for the 2024 IUP Spring Methodology Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages!
Eileen W. Glisan, PhD is professor emerita at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she coordinated the Spanish Education K-12 program for more than 30 years. She served as president of ACTFL, chair of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and president of the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association. She is co-author of the two-volume series, Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices, of The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting, and of Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction. In 2009, she launched the ACTFL Research Priorities Project designed to develop and promote a national research agenda in foreign language education. Glisan received the 1996 Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education and the 2008 Northeast Conference Nelson H. Brooks Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership to the Profession. In 2012, she received the Frank Mulhern Leadership Award for Outstanding Leadership in World Languages and Cultures by PSMLA. Glisan conducts professional development for educators at all levels.
Bonnie Adair-Hauck, PhD is a second language researcher and world language consultant. Adair-Hauck’s professional appointments include serving as an assistant professor of French and chair of the Modern Language Department, La Roche College; senior teaching fellow for the University of Pittsburgh’s World Language Education MAT program; second language researcher, University of Pittsburgh’s Center for European Studies, and graduate professor for the University of Northern Iowa’s MAT Teacher Education program in Angers, France. She has published articles in Foreign Language Annals, Language Awareness, Canadian Modern Language Review, CALICO, Pages d’Ecriture, Northeast Conference Reports, French Review, PSMLA Language Forum, and Teacher’s Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction. Recently, she co-authored Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting! Adair-Hauck received the AATF Sir Edouard Morot-Sir Pedagogical Prize (2002); AATF Outstanding Educator of the Year Award (1998); co-recipient of the Northeast Conference Stephen A. Freeman Award (2004, 2008); and the ACTFL Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education (2012). In 2014, she received the Frank Mulhern Leadership Award by PSMLA.