Iulia Pittman

Education

PhD, University of Georgia

Research Interests

second language acquisition, pronunciation issues in foreign language learning, technology in foreign language teaching, business German, and code-switching

Publications

• Pittman, I. & Gramberg, A. (2016) "An Exploration of Outreach Opportunities for College German Programs in Alabama” in Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition. Brigitta Brunner (Ed.) University of Alabama Press. 62-85.
• Raising Children Bilingually in the United States. (2015) Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge, UK. (Editor and Contributor)
• “Integration of Pronunciation in First-Year German Textbooks” in Proceedings of the 6th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. J. Levis, R. Mohammed, M. Qian & Z. Zhou (Eds). Santa Barbara, CA. Ames, IA: Iowa State University. 2015: 229-242.
• “Language and Culture through the Lens of Business German” in Cultural Diversity and Specialty Languages. Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca, 2013: 68-75.
• “To PowerPoint or not to PowerPoint: Student Presentations in the Foreign Language Classroom” in Diversitate Culturală şi Multilingvism (Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism). Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca. 2012, 52-61.
• "German Phonetic Transcription and its Challenges in the Foreign Language Classroom," Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen. 2010, 41: 12-15.
• "Successful Technologies for Teaching Phonetics," Southern Journal of Linguistics. 2010, 34.1:75-86.
• "Technologies in Teaching Undergraduate German: Strengths and Weaknesses" (2008) in Diversitate Cultural? si Multilingvism (Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism). Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca. 325-332.
• "Bilingual and Trilingual Code-Switching Between Hungarian, Romanian, and English in the Speech of Two Transylvanians Living in North-American" (2008) in International Journal of Multilingualism. 5:122-139.
• The Romanian Accent in English. University of Mississippi Press. (2008)
• "Change and Variety in the Mosaic of German Dialects." (2007) Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature. Giovanna Summerfield (Ed.) Cambridge Scholars Press. 105-118.
• Bedeleanu, D. (2000). Transesophageal Echocardiography. Casa C?r?ii de ?tiin??. Translated from Romanian into English.

Courses Taught

• FLGR 3010: German Conversation and Composition I
• FLGR 3020: German Conversation and Composition II
• FLGR 3030: German Pronunciation and Conversation
• FLGR 4310: Business German I
• FLGR 4320: Business German II
• FLGR 4330: German Business, Media, and Society