Synopsis:
After completing my Ph.D. in 18th century French literature at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, I accepted a position at the University
of Missouri-Columbia, where I taught until 1982. In 1983 I joined
the Department of Romance Languages at UNC-CH to teach in the language
program. After several years as a course coordinator, I became Director
of the French Language Program, with responsibility for the training
and supervision of teaching assistants. My teaching is primarily
within the language program, from first to fifth/sixth semester
courses.
In addition, with my colleague who directs the Spanish language program,
I teach a pedagogy course for new teaching assistants: "Theories
and Techniques of Teaching Foreign Language". Observing
and videotaping graduate teaching assistants enables me to help
them improve
their teaching skills.
Research interests focus on language teaching and teaching assistant
training and I have published in these areas. I present regularly
at ACTFL, Central States, the Foreign Language Association of North
Carolina and similar meetings. In 1993 I published, with Clare Tufts
(Duke University), an intermediate French textbook, Sur le vif
(Heinle & Heinle), which is now in its fourth edition (2006).
In 2001, my colleague, Dr. Nina Furry, and I published Bonne continuation:
approfondissement à l'écrit et à l'oral (Prentice
Hall), a fourth/fifth semester textbook, which is in its second
edition (2008).
Course Pages :
[Romance
Languages 700] - Theories and Techniques of Teaching Foreign
Languages
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