Stephanie Hanson has received a Fulbright US Scholar Program award for the 2024–2025 academic year from the US Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Hanson, a senior lecturer for the Minnesota English Language Program, will be hosted by the Language Department at Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Pérez Zeledón Campus, Brunca Branch from January through June 2025. She describes her project, “Applying Communicative Language Pedagogy in Costa Rican TEFL* Contexts,” this way:
“I’ll be developing and facilitating professional development workshops for Costa Rican teachers of English in the southern region of the country. Topics for my workshops will generally focus on methodology, task-based instruction, communicative language teaching, and action-oriented approaches. The participating teachers will include in-service teachers from universities and public schools, and pre-service teachers (university students who are studying to become English teachers).”
This is the second Fulbright award for Hanson, who was a Fulbright-García Robles TEFL Scholar in Mexico City during the 2019–2020 academic year.
*Teaching English as a Foreign Language
