Tracy D. Terrell Mary Rogers Betsy Kerr,
University of Minnesota Guy Spielmann,
Georgetown University
ISBN: 0073386456 Copyright year: 2013
About the Authors
Tracy D. Terrell, late of the University of California, San Diego, received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. His extensive research publications are in the area of Spanish dialectology, with particular focus on the sociolinguistics of Caribbean Spanish. Professor Terrell's publications on second language acquisition and on the Natural Approach are widely known in the United States.
Mary Bassett Rogers holds her undergraduate and graduate degrees in French from
Vanderbilt University. She was a faculty member at Wichita State University for many
years, where she taught French and served as coordinator for foreign language education
and supervisor of student teachers in that field. Rogers is a past president
and board member of the Kansas Foreign Language Association and was twice certified
as tester for the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview. She has given numerous
presentations and workshops on second-language teaching and also taught French
and second-language pedagogy at Friends University (Kansas), where she was
Research Fellow in Second-Language Acquisition. Professor Rogers is co-author
of ¡Bravo!, a Natural Approach program for teaching Spanish in secondary and
middle schools.
Betsy J. Kerr is Associate Professor of French at the University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities. She received her Ph.D. in French linguistics from Indiana University and has
published in the areas of French syntax and pragmatics, specializing in the analysis
of spoken French discourse. She is currently interested in applications of corpus
linguistics to second language education. At the University of Minnesota, Professor
Kerr (formerly Barnes) teaches courses in French language and linguistics and has
served as both Director of the Lower Division French Program and Director of Undergraduate Studies in French.
Born and raised in Marseille, Guy Spielmann (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor of French at Georgetown University. He was also Associate Director, then Director of the French School, Middlebury College. He has done research, lectured, and published extensively on second language acquisition and performing arts in Early Modern Europe. He has also pioneered work in the scholarly and pedagogical use of information technology. Visit La Page de Guy at www.georgetown.edu/spielmann.
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