She is also chair of Modern Language Studies. Cartal-Falk teaches all levels of language but her efforts focus primarily on increasing student proficiency from the intermediate to the advanced level, the 111-112 and 221-222 sequence. She has revised the curriculum extensively in both courses to include the study of film and literature. Cartal-Falk also teaches the Foreign Language Pedagogy course to future teachers who have majored in French, German and Spanish.