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This book is a compilation of case studies and analyses that can be used as a resource guide for college and university professors of foreign language and academic museum educators collaborating to develop new pedagogical approaches to teaching foreign language with and through objects in the academic museum. As institutions of higher education respond to the needs of an increasingly global and interconnected world, their educational missions prioritize learning in areas such as interdisciplinary thinking, collaboration, intercultural competency, and global citizenship. Academic museums are uniquely poised to facilitate learning experiences in these areas, providing institutions with an essential platform for realizing their larger mission.

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This excellent book about the museum as laboratory for language study is long overdue. Many museum staff have known for some time that college and university museums are often an untapped resource for many academic disciplines. The key, as demonstrated here, is to provide convincing case studies for faculty to grasp how language study at the Museum can take different forms that reflect course goals and levels of language skill. Student survey data make clear that the Museum has become a new kind of language lab. --Richard Saunders, Director, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Professor, History of Art and Architecture This is a book I have been waiting for! It makes clear that some of the most innovative work in museums comes from academic museums. These carefully documented and thoughtfully analyzed experiences that use objects to support language acquisition will undoubtedly lead to new partnerships across the country. --Ray Williams, Director of Education and Academic Affairs, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin This excellent book about the museum as laboratory for language study is long overdue. Many museum staff have known for some time that college and university museums are often an untapped resource for many academic disciplines. The key, as demonstrated here, is to provide convincing case studies for faculty to grasp how language study at the Museum can take different forms that reflect course goals and levels of language skill. Student survey data make clear that the Museum has become a new kind of language lab. This is a book I have been waiting for! It makes clear that some of the most innovative work in museums comes from academic museums. These carefully documented and thoughtfully analyzed experiences that use objects to support language acquisition will undoubtedly lead to new partnerships across the country.

This excellent book about the museum as laboratory for language study is long overdue. Many museum staff have known for some time that college and university museums are often an untapped resource for many academic disciplines. The key, as demonstrated here, is to provide convincing case studies for faculty to grasp how language study at the Museum can take different forms that reflect course goals and levels of language skill. Student survey data make clear that the Museum has become a new kind of language lab. This is a book I have been waiting for! It makes clear that some of the most innovative work in museums comes from academic museums. These carefully documented and thoughtfully analyzed experiences that use objects to support language acquisition will undoubtedly lead to new partnerships across the country.

This excellent book about the museum as laboratory for language study is long overdue. Many museum staff have known for some time that college and university museums are often an untapped resource for many academic disciplines. The key, as demonstrated here, is to provide convincing case studies for faculty to grasp how language study at the Museum can take different forms that reflect course goals and levels of language skill. Student survey data make clear that the Museum has become a new kind of language lab.--Richard Saunders, Director, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Professor, History of Art and Architecture This is a book I have been waiting for! It makes clear that some of the most innovative work in museums comes from academic museums. These carefully documented and thoughtfully analyzed experiences that use objects to support language acquisition will undoubtedly lead to new partnerships across the country.--Ray Williams, Director of Education and Academic Affairs, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin

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Heather Flaherty, as Curator of Education at The Trout Gallery, the art museum of Dickinson College, directs educational programming for college and community audiences. Flaherty received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from The University of Michigan and her scholarship focuses on medieval manuscripts. Under her leadership, The Trout Gallery has won the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association’s Merit Award for connecting language and art and the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages James W. Dodge Award for Outstanding Foreign Language Advocacy. Jodi Kovach is the Curator of Academic Programs at the Gund Gallery, Kenyon College. In this role, she partners with faculty across disciplines to integrate art into the curricula. She holds a PhD in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis. Her scholarship focuses on international modernism and global contemporary art, with a specialization in Mexican art, and has appeared in publications such as Art Journal.

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