Tracy Heranic Presents at Conference in China
Tracy Heranic, part-time lecturer in French, presented this past summer at a conference in China. Tracy says:
I participated, in conjunction with researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, Harbin Normal University, The University of Queensland, and Université de Nantes, in a thematic research and discussion session dealing with Heritage across Linguistic Borders: Semantic Approaches of Intangible Cultural Heritage, at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference at Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou, China. Through the lens of augmentative semantics, we examined the discursive potential of words to convey intangible cultural heritage, specifically encapsulated in the language and discourse of varying cultures, and how this understanding and way of approaching semantic understanding can and should be used in the L2 classroom.