{"id":6143,"date":"2012-11-05T22:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:47:30","slug":"6143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2012\/11\/05\/6143\/","title":{"rendered":"Salsa at MaFLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6146\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/rs\/files\/2012\/11\/Angelica-Avcikurt-MAFLA1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/rs\/files\/2012\/11\/Angelica-Avcikurt-MAFLA1-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Avcikurt MAFLA\" title=\"Angelica Avcikurt MAFLA\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6146 \" height=\"477\" width=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/files\/2012\/11\/Angelica-Avcikurt-MAFLA1-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/files\/2012\/11\/Angelica-Avcikurt-MAFLA1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Avcikurt at MAFLA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Romance Studies made a splash at the annual Massachusetts Foreign Language Association conference in Sturbridge October 25-27. The conference brought together over 600 K-16 language instructors from MA, CT, NH, RI and upstate NY. RS faculty and graduate students offered 3 of the 85 sessions, and all were well attended.\u00a0 C\u00e9lia Bianconi and Sue Griffin presented \u00a0&#8220;Effective Reading Strategies for the World Language Classroom.&#8221; Grad students Jen L\u00f3pez and Paola Calahorrano&#8211;in their first foray into conference presentations&#8211;presented &#8220;Taming Technology: Achieving the 5Cs through Free Web Applications.&#8221; Angelica Avcikurt (photo) had the hall rocking with &#8220;Teaching Puerto Rican Culture through Music.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romance Studies made a splash at the annual Massachusetts Foreign Language Association conference in Sturbridge October 25-27. The conference brought together over 600 K-16 language instructors from MA, CT, NH, RI and upstate NY. RS faculty and graduate students offered 3 of the 85 sessions, and all were well attended.\u00a0 C\u00e9lia Bianconi and Sue Griffin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}