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Ernie Lunsford publishes book

lunsford — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:34:00 +0000

His textbook is part of a multimedia package that also includes an online workbook and an interactive DVD. The publisher is Pearson-Prentice-Hall.

Lunsford presents in Spain

lunsford — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:03:00 +0000

Ernie Lunsford, Professor of Spanish, presented a half-day workshop at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)this past summer. The AATSP, which alternates its annual meeting between venues in the United States and a Spanish or Portuguese-speaking country, was held this year in Salamanca, Spain, home of Spain’s oldest university. Lunsford’s workshop was titled: “Sin pelos en la lengua: cómo usar canciones para abordar temas delicados.”

Lunsford is currently on sabbatical, starting work on the textbook of ¡A su salud!: Introductory Spanish for Health Professionals. This textbook will be part of a multi-media package being produced by an interdisciplinary team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lunsford presents workshop in Brazil

lunsford — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:09:00 +0000

Ernest J. Lunsford, associate professor of Spanish, presented a half-day workshop at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 29. His workshop focused on how music can be used effectively to teach grammar, culture, phonetics and vocabulary in the foreign language classroom.

Lunsford Invited to join UNC project

lunsford — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:48:00 +0000

Ernest J. Lunsford, associate professor of Spanish, has been invited to join an interdisciplinary team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to create a multimedia program to teach Spanish to health-care professionals. The work will assist health-care professionals in providing services to Spanish-speaking residents. As envisioned, the program, named “A Su Salud!” (“To Your Health!”), will be centered around a DVD-based video series with accompanying DVD- and Web-based interactive exercises and a print workbook.

The series will follow a family that migrates from Latin America to the United States in search of a better life, but encounters language, cultural and health problems. The aim of the project is to create a beginning Spanish language program with a focus on health-care issues and the cultural background of the immigrant Hispanic population in the U.S. The program will be available on the Internet across the U.S. so colleges and universities can offer A Su Salud! to health-care professionals through distance learning, in a traditional classroom setting or using a combination of both. Wray Media of Columbia, S.C., will be the production company for the DVD series, and the course materials will be published by Yale University Press. Lunsford’s role in the project will be to design the Spanish language teaching program and supporting materials and to coordinate them with the DVD series, which will have professional scriptwriters and professional actors and actresses playing the main roles.

Lunsford will join the project design team, which includes personnel from the UNC School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Social Work, Office of Information Technology Services and the William Friday Center for Continuing Education, in February. The project is expected to take two to three years to complete. At that time, ��ϲ�� is to receive a site license for the program so that this course can be offered at ��ϲ�� to health-care professionals in Burlington and the surrounding area as well as to regular ��ϲ�� students.

Lunsford Publishes Book

lunsford — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:22:00 +0000

Ernie Lunsford has co-authored a textbook titled En Otras Palabras (In Other Words), designed for advanced-level students of Spanish. The textbook uses translation to help students focus on form in order to sharpen their skills in Spanish. Each chapter contains texts in Spanish to be translated to English, and texts in English to be translated to Spanish. The first half of the book deals with specific problem areas of Spanish grammar, such as the subjunctive, and the second half of the book deals with language for specific professions, such as medicine, business and advertising. The book was published in August by Georgetown University Press.