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A class in progress in the TILE classroom

On a late September day in Pilar Marcé’s Spanish for Business course, small groups of students cluster around laptop computers, scanning websites for information about products being marketed to Spanish-speaking customers.

They scroll and click and talk and point as they uncover information about each product, to whom it’s being sold, how it’s being marketed, and more. They discuss and record their answers to the assignment as Marcé, a lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, walks around the room, checking in on groups and answering questions. Read on...