German Faculty and Lecturers

Klaus Driessen

B.A. (German) University of Texas at Arlington
M.A. (German Literature and Linguistics) University of Texas at Arlington
M.Ed. (Educational Administration) University of North Texas

Office:210 Trimble Hall
Telephone:817.272.5525
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Klaus Driessen, a retired school superintendent, was born in the small Bavarian town of Altenmarkt an der Alz, Germany near München. He immigrated to the United States in 1956 and became a naturalized citizen in 1966. He taught German for many years at Arlington and Bowie High Schools in Arlington, Texas. Klaus also taught at The University of Dallas and Tarrant County College and was director of the Goethe German Language School for Children in Dallas for several years. His publications include: High Schools Go On-Line for Travel and Tourism Training, Tech Directions, 1997; True Friends, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 1992, Manuscript; Games for Foreign Language Learning, Scholastic Magazine, 1978; A Source List for Teachers of German, Schatzkammer der Deutschen Sprachlähre Dichtung und Geschichte, 1975; Additions to Source List, Schatzkammer, 1977. His passions, outside of teaching, include traveling and stained glass window making.

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Kirsi Rossi

M.A. (German Language and Culture, Language Teacher Education) University of Jyväskylä, Finland
B.A. (German Language and Culture) University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Industrial Business Administration Assistant (Industrial Business Administration) Professional School, Germany

Office: 210 Trimble Hall
Telephone: 817.272.5525
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Pete Smith, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

B.A. (General Arts and Sciences) Pennsylvania State University
B.S. (Russian Technical Translation) Pennsylvania State University
M.A. (Slavic Languages) University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. (Foreign Language Education) University of Texas at Austin

Office: 210 Trimble Hall
Telephone: 817.272.5525
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Pete Smith is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. His background and interests focus on the role of technology in language education, especially as regards critical languages such as Russian and German. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The IALL Journal of Language Learning Technologies and has published and spoken nationally and internationally on technology-assisted language development. Most recently, he is serving as a program officer in the Network for Effective Language Learning, an innovative initiative funded by the Keck Foundation and based at Drake University, designed to assist small and mid-sized private colleges and universities to transform their offerings in language instruction to meet the needs of the 21st century student.