Anne Cummings Hlas, Ph.D.
Contact Information
105 Garfield Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Biography
Dr. Hlas is the author of Practical creativity: Language activities and ideas for your language classroom (2019) from Cognella Academic Publishing. In addition, she received the 2005 Emma Marie Birkmaier award for outstanding dissertation work from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and more recently received an ACTFL Research Priority Grant to explore high-leverage teaching practices. In 2014 she was honored to receive the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Excellence in Research Award. Her research interests include second language teacher knowledge, teacher use of technology, and teacher target language use. She regularly publishes work in Foreign Language Annals, the Language Educator, and Hispania.
Education
She is a native of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and received her bachelor's degree and master's degree in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her doctoral degree in Foreign Language Education with a specialization in technology from the University of Iowa.
Teaching and Research Interests
She regularly teaches the world language methods courses, second language acquisition, and beginning to advanced level Spanish courses. In addition, she loves learning new technologies, traveling, conferencing and spending time with her family and friends.
Dr. Hlas received the 2005 Emma Marie Birkmaier award for outstanding dissertation work from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and more recently received an ACTFL Research Priority Grant to explore creativity within world language education. In 2014 she was honored to receive the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Excellence in Research Award. Her research interests include second language teacher knowledge, high leverage teaching practices, and creativity.
Published Research
Selected publications
Hlas, A.C. & Hlas, C.S. (2024). The creative abilities of preservice world language educators. Foreign Language Annals, 1-22, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/flan.12757
Hlas, A.C., Julson, J., & Hlas, C.S. (February 2024). Assessing Creativity in the Language Classroom with the Consensual Assessment Technique. Creativity Research Journal, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2311482
Hlas, A.C., Nadolny, J., Hlas, C.S. (2022). Investigating Creativity in Online K-12 world language classrooms (Chapter 8). In J. W. LeLoup & P. Swanson (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Effective Online Language Teaching in a Disruptive Environment (pp. 143-167). IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7720-2
Hlas, A.C. (2019). Practical Creativity: Activities and ideas for your language classroom. San Diego, CA: Cognella Publishing. https://titles.cognella.com/practical-creativity-9781516513338
Hildebrandt, S. & Hlas, A. C. (2018). Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Language Awareness, and edTPA. In P. Swanson & S. Hildebrandt (Eds.), Researching edTPA Problems and Promises: Perspectives from ESOL, English, and WL Teacher Education (pp. 143-161). Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing. http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Researching-edTPA-Promises-and-Problems
Hlas, A.C. (2018). Grand challenges and great potential in foreign language teaching and learning. Foreign Language Annals, 1-9. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/flan.12317/abstract
Hlas, A.C., Neyers, K., & Molitor, S. (2017). Measuring student attention in the second language classroom. Language Teaching Research. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362168817713766
Hlas, A.C. (2016). Secondary teachers’ language usage: Beliefs and practices. Hispania, 99(2), p. 305-319.
Hlas, A. C. & Hlas, C. S. (2012). An examination of high-leverage teaching practices: Making connections between mathematics and foreign languages, Foreign Language Annals, 45 (S1), s76-s97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2012.01180.x
Byrd, D. R., Hlas, A. C., Watzke, J., & Montes Valencia, M. F. (2011). An Examination of Culture Knowledge: A Study of L2 Teachers' and Teacher Educators' Beliefs and Practices. Foreign Language Annals,44 (1), 4-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2011.01117.x
Honors And Recognition
2018-2019 Maxwell Schoenfeld Distinguished Professorship
2018 Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers Recognition of Merit
2016 UW System Board of Regents Excellence in Teaching Nominee
2012 University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire Excellence in Scholarship Award
2005 ACTFL-MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education