Faculty & Staff
- Faculty
- Jack Gillette
- Linda Cole-Taylor
- Adjunct Faculty
- Karen Campe
- Nancy Close
- Nick Fiori
- Carla Horwitz
- Nancy Levy-Konesky
- Michele Raynor
- Burt Saxon
- Staff
- Kendra Mack
Nancy Levy-Konesky
Instructor, Methods of Teaching Foreign Language
Nancy Levy-Konesky holds a Ph.D. in Education: Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, a Master's Degree in Spanish Language and Hispanic Literature from American University, and has completed the course work for a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (French, Spanish, Italian and English l9th Century). She has taught Spanish and Hispanic culture and literature at the university level for more than twenty five years, and also has experience teaching and writing curriculum for middle and high school students. She developed and teaches foreign language methodology courses on the undergraduate and graduate level and continues to lead teacher-training workshops. She currently teaches with the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University.
In addition to her teaching, she has authored many textbooks for both high school and college students of Spanish, French and Italian and produces many of the language and culture videotapes that accompany foreign language textbooks. A recent video project won a Telly Award in recognition of outstanding non-network video production. She was the recipient of the John Schmidt award for her research and development of Instructional Video Design, the use of interactive video in the L2 classroom, and its effect on second language acquisition and perception of target cultures.
She contributes to the design of CD ROM support materials, and is presently exploring blended teaching techniques; ways to provide and deliver in-depth foreign language content on the Internet by incorporating streaming audio/streaming video, interactive exercises and real time as well as asynchronous teaching.
As she is a strong proponent of service learning, she created and taught for many years a Spanish Practicum/Seminar on Puerto Rico and Cuba, a course which places students in internships in the Hispanic communities where they can use their Spanish in practical situations while they gain experience in their chosen field of study.
