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Joan Clifford

Associate Professor of the Practice of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90269, Spanish Language Program, Durham, NC 27708-0257
2122 Campus Dr., Room 206, Box 90269, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Community-based Language Learning

Chapter · May 19, 2025 The Routledge Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration is essential reading for practicing second language program administrators at the post-secondary level, in-service and pre-service second language instructors, ... ... Cite

Community-based language learning as a transformative practice: An exploration of the modes of communication

Journal Article Foreign Language Annals · September 1, 2022 This study explores transformative learning (TL) in community-based language learning experiences. The fall 2019 study, conducted with 25 undergraduate students enrolled in two advanced language courses with a service-learning component, was designed to id ... Full text Cite

Community-Based Learning During a Pandemic

Internet Publication · November 19, 2020 Link to item Cite

Shifting Perspectives: When Teachers Are Learners

Other · July 30, 2020 When we put ourselves in the learner role and get curious about the process, remembering what it’s like to learn something new (and even to resist/question/doubt), we can reinvigorate our teaching by both reexamining our familiar practices and exploring th ... Link to item Cite

An Exploratory Study of Student Perceptions of Service-Learning and Social Entrepreneurship

Chapter · April 3, 2020 This book offers a much-needed appraisal of two key social change movements within higher education: civic engagement and social innovation. ... Cite

Seeing Community Engagement as We Are: Student Perceptions of Service-Learning and Social Entrepreneurship Education

Journal Article International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement · 2020 Full text Cite

Community-Based Language Learning A Framework for Educators

Book · November 2018 Community-based Language Learning offers the first manual for world language educators interested in community-based learning (CBL). ... Cite

Shaping Multilingual Global Citizens

Internet Publication · October 8, 2018 Link to item Cite

Talking about service-learning: Product or process? Reciprocity or solidarity?

Journal Article Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement · January 1, 2017 Through an exploration of values of the neoliberal university and critical service-learning, this article explores how associating service-learning with products and relationships based on reciprocity negatively impacts its connection to social justice. By ... Cite

Borders Beyond the Border: Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham, and Beyond

Internet Publication · 2017 The Borders Beyond the Border project documents and analyzes the contemporary experience of immigrants in North Carolina through articles, documentary film, and photography. We do so through a range of collaborations involving Duke University faculty and s ... Cite

Collaboration X-Change

Internet Publication · February 29, 2016 Cite

Transforming Learners through Intercultural Competence

Journal Article The Language Educator · 2015 Cite

Meeting the Challenges of Machine Translation

Journal Article The Language Educator · October 2013 Cite

Voices from the Latino Community in North Carolina

Other · 2005 The "Voices from the Latino Community in North Carolina" website is designed to provide a digital oral history archive that documents the Spanish-speaking immigrant experience in North Carolina in 2004-2005. The authentic oral histories are beneficial sour ... Cite

Pedro Shimose

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Textos en contexto: Literatura hispanoamericana en multimedia by Julia Van Loan

Other The Reading Matrix: An International On-line Journal · June 2002 Cite

The Female Bildungsromane of Beatriz Guido

Journal Article Hispanofila · March 2001 Cite

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Journal Article · 1994 Cite

A Letter About Emily

Journal Article · 1994 Cite

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Chapter · 1994 Cite

A Letter About Emily

Chapter · 1994 Cite

Pedro Shimose

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