
We are very proud of the participation of five SLCR faculty members at the 78th Annual Convention of RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association). The conference took place in Spokane between October 16 and 18, 2025. Our faculty presented in the fields of General and Applied Linguistics, Practical Approaches to Teaching Languages, New Latin American Cinema, and Poetry of Generation of 1927. Joshua Bonzo gave a talk titled “Autonomy and Foreign Language Learner Writing Fluency,” Sabine Davis presented “Protest Songs/Chansons engagées to Teach Culture and Intermediate Grammar in College,” Kayo Niimi spoke about “The Role of Extensive Reading in Language Learning,” Amanda Hussein shared a chapter of her Ph.D. Dissertation titled “So…why did she stay? An analysis of gender, race, and colonized consciousness in the Dominican film Sand Dollars”, and Vilma Navarro-Daniels presented her research paper, “Carmen Conde, Poet of the Spanish Civil War.”