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Examiners
A significant percentage of each language student’s grade is determined by the student’s performance on the midterm and final examination. For these examinations, a professor from another college or university has an oral interview with the students to determine how well they are able to talk about the materials the students have been studying. These professors have the title of examiner. They are all Ph.D. professors that are quite familiar with our program and our unique approach to language learning.
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| Volker Hegelheimer is Faculty Mentor for German within World Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and the Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics & Technology at Iowa State University. His research interests include applications of the web and emerging technologies in language learning and language testing. His publications have appeared in refereed journals such as CALICO Journal, Language Learning & Technology, Language Testing, System, and ReCALL. Most recently, he completed the TESOL Technology Standards with a team of CALL researchers.
In 1995, Volker received his M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology also from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Dr. Pete Smith is an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he oversees UTA’s Center for Distance Education, as well as Classroom Technology Support Services. Dr. Smith serves as the Russian examiner for World Languages and Cultures at Drake. Dr. Smith came to UTA in 1992 as Director of the Language Acquisition Center in the Department of Modern Languages, where he continues to serve as an active teacher of German and Russian language and culture and is a participating faculty member in the Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies. He earned his B.A. and B.S. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University, and his Master’s in Slavic Languages and Doctorate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Texas at Austin. During his career, Pete has served in numerous professional and scholarly posts, including five years as the Editor-in-Chief of The IALL Journal of Language Learning and Technology, a national journal devoted to the use of technology in language teaching and learning. |  |
Details about our other examiners will come soon!
