Student Paper Awarded “Most Innovative Research” at Professional Symposium

Tiffany Diebold, Hiba Al Ghabra, Dana Parsons
Recent Middlebury Institute graduates Hiba Al Ghabra MATESOL ’18 and Tiffany Diebold MATESOL ’18 with their friend and fellow alumna Dana Parsons MATESOL ’18 after receiving the award for “Most Innovative Research” at the UC Davis Symposium on Language Research.

Beating out Ph.D. students in their chosen field of language education, two recent graduates of the Middlebury Institute’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MATESOL) degree program, Tiffany Diebold MATESOL ‘18 and Hiba Al Ghabra MATESOL ‘18, were awarded “Most Innovative Research” for their paper “Constructing Shared Knowledge Through Gesture.”

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