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Introduction	Lana Rings is Associate Professor German at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has spent her entire career as an academic there -- the last twenty-three years. Over the years she attended colleges/universities in Kansas (B.A.), Missouri (M.A.), Vermont (language immersion program), California (Ph.D.), and Germany (Rotary International Fellow). Lana has written on Kriemhild's need to save face in the medieval epic the NIBELUNGENLIED, on the application of research findings in conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, and pragmatics to L2 pedagogy, on intercultural (mis)understanding, and on blogging in the L2 classroom. Because of the advantages of living in a small program, she has had the opportunity to teach at all levels of the curriculum and in many content areas: linguistics, conversation analysis, literature, culture, L2 methods, German language and culture, from the first year to the graduate level. At present she is (once again) re-thinking her teaching. The thoughts, opinions, and ramblings on this blog are Lana's, not her employer's.

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Introduction

Lana Rings is Associate Professor German at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has spent her entire career as an academic there -- the last twenty-three years. Over the years she attended colleges/universities in Kansas (B.A.), Missouri (M.A.), Vermont (language immersion program), California (Ph.D.), and Germany (Rotary International Fellow). Lana has written on Kriemhild's need to save face in the medieval epic the NIBELUNGENLIED, on the application of research findings in conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, and pragmatics to L2 pedagogy, on intercultural (mis)understanding, and on blogging in the L2 classroom. Because of the advantages of living in a small program, she has had the opportunity to teach at all levels of the curriculum and in many content areas: linguistics, conversation analysis, literature, culture, L2 methods, German language and culture, from the first year to the graduate level. At present she is (once again) re-thinking her teaching. The thoughts, opinions, and ramblings on this blog are Lana's, not her employer's.