{"id":48118,"date":"2011-08-31T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48118"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:52:54","slug":"fulbrights11-brzezinska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/08\/31\/fulbrights11-brzezinska\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Brzezinska &#039;11, Fulbright teaching assistantship recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/08\/anna-brzezinska-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/08\/anna-brzezinska-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Ana Brzezinska\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ana Brzezinska &#8217;11 has received an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright   U.S. Student Program.   These grants support recipients in positions as teaching assistants abroad who   work with local students on their English language skills and  knowledge  of the United States. As the same time, the teaching  assistants pursue  individual research.<\/p>\n<p>Brzezinska will teach English in Germany and also research the experiences of  the Turkish immigrant population, which was the topic of her senior  politics thesis at Bates.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Studying in Germany in 2008-09, Brzezinska experienced the difficulties  that language barriers create for people in a foreign land. This  inspired her to volunteer in an English-as-a-second-language program  upon her return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw my ESL students&#8217; eyes opening to the new world around them,&#8221; she  says. &#8220;They had faced the same obstacles to communication that I had  faced in Germany, but as the summer progressed, I could see a marked  difference in the way they interacted among themselves and with me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They could now make plans for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brzezinska&#8217;s Fulbright-supported research will explore the emergence of immigrant cultural centers, interactions between immigrants and local populations, and the influence of Turkish culture on German society. She hopes to supplement her work with university courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Brzezinska &#8217;11 has received an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. These grants support recipients in positions as teaching assistants who work with local students on their English language skills and knowledge of the United States. As the same time, the teaching assistants pursue individual research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10576,138,3709,10749],"class_list":["post-48118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","tag-class-of-2011","tag-education","tag-fulbright-u-s-student-program","tag-german"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86295,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48118\/revisions\/86295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}