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Allison Larkin began teaching at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â in 2014 and is the Associate Department Chair, a Senior Lecturer of Spanish, and the Assistant Director of  (2018-present). From 2020 – 2023, she served as the department’s Director of Second Language Assessment. Prof. Larkin is the designer of the First-Year Spanish online curriculum, and served as the departmental coordinator of First-Year Spanish from 2015-2020. She received the Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award in 2018. She loves teaching Spanish language and culture at all levels.

• Technology in Language Education
• Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy
• Language Assessment & Curricular Development

• “Using Juried Assessment to Improve Cultural Competence.” Co-presented with Dr. Dayna Oscherwitz and Dr. Yan Cooksey. AAC&U Conference. Feb. 9 – 11, 2023. New Orleans, Louisiana.
• “Addressing Challenges in Multi-section Online Courses.” ACTFL 2019 Convention, Nov. 22-24, 2019. Washington, D.C.                    
• “Building a Post-Secondary World Languages Online Curriculum: A Case Study.” ACTFL 2018 Convention, November 16-18, 2018. New Orleans, Louisiana.