Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Education: 2006, Ph.D., University of Georgia

Research & Teaching Interests: second language acquisition, pronunciation issues in foreign language learning, technology in foreign language teaching, business German, and code-switching

Department Appointments: Program Coordinator for Elementary and Intermediate German; Faculty Advisor for the German Club

• The Romanian Accent in English. University of Mississippi Press. (2008)
• "Technologies in teaching Undergraduate German: Strengths and Weaknesses" (2008) in Diversitate Culturală si Multilingvism (Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism). Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca. 325-332.
• "Bilingual and Trilingual Code-Switching Between Hungarian, Romanian, and English in the Speech of Two Transylvanians Living in North-American" (2008) in International Journal of Multilingualism. 5:122-139.
• "Change and Variety in the Mosaic of German Dialects." (2007) Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature. Giovanna Summerfield (Ed.) Cambridge Scholars Press. 105-118.
• Bedeleanu, D. (2000). Transesophageal Echocardiography. Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă. Translated from Romanian into English.

• FLGR 3010, German Conversation and Composition I
• FLGR 3020, German Conversation and Composition II
• FLGR 3030, German Pronunciation and Conversation
• FLGR 4310, Business German I
• FLGR 4320, Business German II