Expertise

Research Areas

  • instructed Intercultural competence
  • attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes
  • empathy
  • second language acquisition

Her research focuses on teaching culture through stereotypes, developing learners’ critical cultural awareness, affective dimensions of foreign language learning, and designing experiential project-based simulations.


Subject Area

  • French
Communities
French, French
Degrees
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Second Language Acquisition, 2009
MA, University of Bordeaux, Langues Etrangeres Appliquees, 1997
Licence de Langues Etrangères Appliquées, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III
Languages
English, French
Associations
AAAL, AATF, ACTFL, AAUSC