DULAP Cooridinators

Chinatsu Sazawa

Chinatsu Sazawa is the coordinator of Chinese, Hindi, Italian, and Japanese. She received her MA in Japanese pedagogy and PhD in Language, Literacy and Culture, from the University of Iowa. She also studied theory and pedagogy of ESL/EFL classrooms at Fresno Pacific University under David and Yvonne Freeman where she was a visiting scholar. She has taught Japanese at several institutions including Tohoku University, The Associated Kyoto Program, Middlebury College, and the University of Iowa.

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Priscila Piper

Priscila Palomino Piper is a Language Acquisition Specialist in DULAP, where she coordinates the Spanish language program.  She has more than 20 years experience in Applied Linguistics (ESL, Bilingual Education, and Literacy training for endangered languages in Mexico and Guatemala).  She has taught at the University of North Dakota, the Universidad Madero in Puebla, Mexico, the Des Moines Public Schools, and for several language institutes in the U.S. and Mexico.  Priscila has undergraduate degrees in Linguistics and Elementary Education (ESL endorsement), and a Master of Arts-Education from the University of Northern Iowa in Elementary Reading/Language Arts (Bilingual Education emphasis).  Her research interests are curriculum design, authentic assessment, and second language acquisition.

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Marc Cadd

Marc Cadd is Associate Director of the Language Acquisition at Drake University. He is also the language coordinator for Arabic, German, and Russian. He taught German and a variety of cultural courses in a traditional college program for several years, as well as German and mathematics in a public middle school. He currently teaches the second-semester strategies course that focuses on developing cultural proficiency in students (LAP 098). His current projects include infusing language courses with cultural content, training the language partners, and developing online grammar and SCOLA exercises.
Marc has a bachelor’s degree in German from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Master’s degree in German from the University of Houston, and a Ph.D. in German from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education emphasis).
"I greatly appreciate the opportunity to participate in the unique program offered to students by Drake. Our approach allows students to become truly functional users of their chosen language(s)."

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