Jane Sokolosky
Senior Lecturer in German Studies:
German Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 2788
Jane_Sokolosky@Brown.EDU
Research Interests: Language pedagogy; Computer-mediated language instruction; language learning and technology; turn-of-the-century Austrian literature
Biography
Senior Lecturer in German Studies, Brown University; Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Middlebury College (1997-98); Ph.D. in German Languages and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis (1997)
Interests
Current research on language learning and technology; use of audio files in language learning; collobarative language learning
Degrees
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Awards
Consortium for Language Teaching Grant Awarded for Project "Einzigartig Deutschland" ($2982.00), January 2007
German Embassy, Washington D.C. Featured Educator, February 2006.
Consortium for Language Teaching, Grant Proposal: Audio to go. Spring 2006
Proposal accepted to participate in Summer Institute, Instructional Technology Groups at CIS Brown University, June 2005
Accepted into Workshop "Making Technology Work: A Collaborative Process and Design Workshop for Language, Culture and Literature Instruction" sponsored by Brown's CIS and the Language Resource Center, June 2004
STG Faculty Grant for 2003-04, Brown University
Admitted to Summer Institute, CIS Brown University, June 2003
Wriston Grant for 2001-02, Brown University
Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society, May 1999
Thyssen Travel Grant to attend Symposium on Twentieth Century Austrian Literature, St. Louis, April 1998
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University, Fall 1996
Middlebury College Language School German Award, 1989, 1990
Fulbright Teaching Assistantship, Linz, Austria, 1984-85
Affiliations
AATG (American Association of Teachers of German)
AAUSC (American Association of University Supervisors)
Funded Research
Consortium for Language Teaching Grant Awarded for Project "Einzigartig Deutschland" ($2982.00), January 2007
Salomon Grant, Brown University, for creation of teaching materials for Beginning German ($64.50), September 2006
Consortium for Language Teaching, Grant Awarded for Project Audio to go ($680). Spring 2006
