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 Patricia
DeBellis
Taught at Muhlenberg 1975 to 2003
B.A., University of California at Los
Angeles
M.A., Lehigh University
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OTHER ADVANCED STUDY
Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
Universidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Université de Paris (Sorbonne), France
Université de Toulouse, France
Institut Catholique, Paris, France
Cemanahuac Educational Community, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Patricia DeBellis joined the Muhlenberg faculty as a part-time
instructor in 1975. In 1977 she was invited to become a full-time
member of the faculty. This new appointment meant that for the
first time she would have the opportunity to teach all three
languages in which she had trained in the respective countries
France, Italy and Spain. In 1983 she was honored by the college
when she received the Lindback Award for excellence in teaching.
Her interest in theatre (she has performed on the Muhlenberg
stage as well as at three other colleges in the area) led her
to begin her plan to take language beyond the classroom by having
her students perform in the language they were studying. The
enthusiasm of her students was exciting and her first production
took place in the college's Egner Chapel to a standing room
only crowd. The stage was then set for future productions and
more and more practice of the language through memorization
of the lines as well as the learning of gestures, intonation
and near-perfect pronunciation. It has been DeBellis's goal
to make the study of foreign languages as enjoyable for her
students as it has been for her. |
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