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Lee Forester teaches all levels of German at Hope and occasionally teaches first year seminars, senior seminars, and forays into linguistics and Icelandic.

His main academic contribution outside the department is his leading role in creating a new type of language textbook based much more extensively on culture. Currently there are four titles: Auf geht's! (beginning German), Weiter geht's! (intermediate German), Ritmos (beginning Spanish) and Rostros (intermediate Spanish). These texts are used in more than 100 institutions across the US and Canada.

Dr. Forester began teaching at Hope College in 1992 after completing his graduate studies with two years in Vienna, teaching and conducting research on a Fulbright fellowship.

Areas of Expertise

• Historical Germanic linguistics 亚洲色吧� the development of the Germanic languages including Gothic, Icelandic, Old English, Old Low Franconian, Old High German and their more modern forms
• Computer-assisted language learning
• Task-based instructional design

Education

• Ph.D., Germanic linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
• M.A., Germanic linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1986
• B.A., German, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

Honors, Grants and Awards

• DAAD GAIST grant (鈧�18,000), 2003亚洲色吧�2006
• Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant for Auf geht's! ($495,870), 2001亚洲色吧�2004
• Ameritech Distance Collaboration Grant ($50,000), 1998亚洲色吧�1999
• Fulbright Research Fellowship, Vienna 1990亚洲色吧�1992
• Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowships, University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies: Serbo-Croatian 1988亚洲色吧�89, Russian 1986亚洲色吧�87
• International Research & Exchanges Board Slavonic Studies fellowship, Bulgaria, 1986

Selected Presentations

• 亚洲色吧淚ntercultural Competence and Transformative Learning in the Language Classroom,亚洲色吧� American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) annual meeting, 2019
• 亚洲色吧淭eaching Culture that Builds Context, AATSP annual meeting, 2017
• 亚洲色吧淰alue-added Curricular Innovation for the Language Requirement,亚洲色吧� keynote address at From Crisis Management to Innovation world languages conference, Simpson College (Iowa), 2015
• 亚洲色吧淩ethinking Beginning Spanish,亚洲色吧� keynote presentation at AATSP Southern California spring meeting, 2014
• 亚洲色吧淭he Risks of Language Teaching and Language Learning in the Undergraduate Curriculum,亚洲色吧� Binghamton University German Studies Colloquium, 2013
• 亚洲色吧淐ontent-Driven Instruction in Beginning and Intermediate Language Courses,亚洲色吧� Council of Independent Colleges Conference on Teaching World Languages, 2011

Selected Publications

• Rostros: Intermediate Spanish and Culture, Live Oak Multimedia, 2019
• 亚洲色吧淚mplementing Student-Produced Video Projects in Language Courses: Guidelines and Lessons Learned,亚洲色吧�&苍产蝉辫;Unterrichtspraxis, 2015
• , 3rd edition (project director and co-author), Live Oak Multimedia, 2015
• (project director and co-author), Live Oak Multimedia, 2012
• 亚洲色吧�,亚洲色吧�&苍产蝉辫;颈苍 Present and Future Promises of CALL: From Theory and Research to New Directions in Language Teaching, CALICO, 2011
• (project director and co-author), Live Oak Multimedia, 2007
• 亚洲色吧淲eb-Based Instruction and Assessment in a German Culture Course,亚洲色吧�&苍产蝉辫;颈苍 Beyond Tests and Quizzes: Creative Assessments in the College Classroom, JB-Anker, 2007
• 亚洲色吧�,亚洲色吧�&苍产蝉辫;CALICO Journal, 2002
• Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse: A Pragmatic Approach, Peter Lang, 1999
• 亚洲色吧�,亚洲色吧� in Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch, Peter Lang 1999
• A Lexicon of Language and Linguistics (editor, and co-translator with G. Trauth), Routledge, 1996

Outside the College

When not working, Dr. Forester spends his time running (he has completed five marathons so far), reading detective fiction in whatever language he happens to be learning at the moment, and developing and designing board games. He has published two games dealing with military conflicts: Semper Fi (USMC in Korea) and Day of Days (Allied invasion of Normandy in WWII).

He also teaches adult Sunday classes at his church, paints miniature figures, dabbles in flatpick guitar when he can fit it in and argues about current events, politics, stupid memes and Japanese anime with his wife and three sons.