Lana Rings, Associate Professor and Section Head of German

B.A., Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
M.A., University of Missouri
Ph.D., University of Southern California

Office: 327 Hammond Hall
Telephone: 817.272.5541
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Lana Rings is associate professor of German at UTA. Her teaching interests include German language, German culture, literature, and methods of teaching German, as well as general linguistics courses. Her research interests include methods, language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, and sociolinguistics and have resulted in a number of journal articles in Semiotica, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Foreign Language Annals, The International Review Of Applied Linguistics, Schatzkammer, and in a textbook for college students, Deutsch natürlich! published by Houghton Mifflin. Professor Rings is the head of the German Section, lower division coordinator, and German Language Society advisor at UTA.

Visit Dr. Rings' UTA Research Profile  (includes her course syllabi).