Harinder Kaur Hennesy

senior instructor

Contact info:
Office: GER 305
Phone: (541) 346-4050
harinder@uoregon.edu


Degrees, years, and locations:
MA in Linguistics, University of Oregon, 1998
MA in Italian, University of Oregon, 1996
Teaching Proficiency Course, Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, 1992
BA in Italian, University of Istanbul, Turkey, 1991

Research and teaching interests:
Harinder is interested in teaching languages and yoga because they both bring a transformational experience in individuals' lives. As a langauge teacher, besides teaching Italian, she is interested in giving the students the study skills they need to become independent learners. She is also interested in integrating information technology in classrooms and is working on developing a website for her courses. She uses her background as a yoga teacher to incorporate yogic breathing techniques in her classes to help students with anxiety and problems of low energy.

Courses taught:
First Year Intensive (Ital 104-105) and Second Year Italian (Ital 201-202-203), Study Skills for Students of Italian (Ital 199), Intensive Grammar Review (Ital 320)

Publications:
Hennesy, Pelin and Givon, Tom. "Note on the Grammar of Turkish Nominalization." In Bybee, J. and Noonan, M., eds., Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in Honor of Sandra A. Thompson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.