The award “celebrates all that Dr. Beverly Moser has done to promote language education not only at Appalachian, but across the state. She is truly a hero to language education in North Carolina.”

Jeff Pageau ’11, second vice president of FLANC

BOONE, N.C. — In recognition of her years of service to foreign language education in North Carolina and the Appalachian region, Appalachian State University’s Dr. Beverly Moser, professor of German and TESL/applied linguistics, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) Honorary Life Member Award.

Moser, who has taught in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) for more than 20 years, received the award during FLANC’s annual business meeting in Winston-Salem held Oct. 25–26.

FLANC’s second vice president, Jeff Pageau ’11, who holds an M.A. in romance languages with a specialization in French from Appalachian, presented the award.

“Beverly has had a profound impact on my career more than any professor in my undergraduate and graduate experiences. I am a better language teacher because of my experiences in her classes,” Pageau said. “She taught us the value of advocacy and being leaders in our profession.”

He continued, “It was a special honor for me to be the one presenting her with this award that celebrates all that she has done to promote language education not only at Appalachian, but across the state. She is truly a hero to language education in North Carolina.”

Moser is active in developing projects to improve language teaching in the college and K–12 settings. By working with colleagues in Appalachian’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Moser has developed and implemented several federally funded projects at Appalachian and in the Appalachian region:

• Moser helped secure funding through the U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) for elementary and middle school students in Burke County to gain access to French and German languages courses for the first time in fall 2008.
• Moser has been principal or co-principal investigator with Appalachian colleague Dr. Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand on two Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) grants through the U.S. Department of Education: “Making Local to Global Connections: Strengthening Foreign Languages across the Curriculum” (2010–12) and “From the South to the Global South: Language and Area Studies for a Changing World” (2014–16).

Additionally, Moser supports campus internationalization initiatives, leads study abroad programs, coordinates Office of Quality Enhancement Plan initiatives in the critical needs languages and hosts international teachers from 20-plus developing countries on campus each fall through the university’s Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA).

Moser was recently inducted into the CAS Academy of Outstanding Teachers and is a past recipient of the Global Leadership Award conferred by Appalachian’s Office of International Education and Development (2017). She participated in the Chancellor’s Academic Leadership Development Program during the 2017–18 academic year.

Moser holds bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in German from Georgetown University.

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