ASU hosts Fulbright Tatar language teacher

<p>One of the five international Fulbright scholars ASU is hosting this academic year is foreign language teaching assistant Aygul Fatykhova from Kazan, Tatarstan, a sovereign area of Russia. With Tatar being the other, lesser-known official language of Russia, her language course offers a unique opportunity for the university and for Fatykhova, as ASU is the only institution in higher education to offer Tatar language instruction on a regular, annual basis.</p><separator></separator><p>“We are doubly fortunate to have her,” says Ariann Stern-Gottschalk of the Critical Languages Institute. “She is a wonderfully talented, creative teacher with great enthusiasm for Tatar language and culture, but also on a programmatic level in building our instructional capacity for Tatar language training.”</p><separator></separator><p>In addition to teaching beginning and intermediate Tatar language courses for the 2006-2007 academic year, Fatykhova led a well-attended lecture during International Education Week on the language and culture of Tatarstan. Her next lecture, “Teaching Tatar in Tatarstan: The Problem of National Language Policy in the Russian Federation,” will take place during the spring semester.</p><separator></separator><p>The Fulbright Scholar program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Department of State to build mutual understanding between the American people and those of other countries.</p>