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New Era Trends And Technologies
in Foreign Language Learning: An Annotated Bibliography
Janice
B. Paulsen, University of Richmond
Janice B. Paulsen
Webmaster, Le
quartier français
University of Richmond, Virginia
Email: jpaulsen@facstaff.richmond.edu
Home page: http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/
Janice B. Paulsen has taught French at all levels (elementary through university) for 35 years (1961-1996), as well as Spanish (1965-1972) and ESL to adults (1970-1972). She has chaired secondary school language departments in Westwood, NJ and Grandview, MO, headed major foreign language curriculum revision projects for the Grandview, MO and Chesterfield County, VA public schools, and presented Proficiency and Internet workshops at local, state, regional and national conferences. The Franco-American School-to-School Exchange Program she initiated in 1989 between Midlothian (VA) High School and the Lycée Pierre Larousse (Toucy, Bourgogne) continues to flourish. After retiring from public school teaching in 1994, she was called to the University of Richmond where she taught French 121, 221 and French Composition 305. By March 1995, she had created and put on the Web the UR-CVANet Global Village with the French portal site, the Quartier français du village planétaire. In January 1996, her article describing this adventure, "Making Foreign Language Study REAL via the WWW Global Village," appeared in Virtual Connections: Online Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners. That June 1996, she was asked to take over the direction of the Multimedia Computer Language Lab of the University of Richmond Department of Modern Language and Literatures, from which position she retired (for the second time) in June 1998. She continues as Webmaster of the Quartier français du village planétaire, http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/gvfrench.html and the UR-CVANet Global Village, http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/cvanetgv.html, for the University of Richmond, on a voluntary basis. Her latest publication, "New Technologies for the 21st Century Foreign Language Classroom," appeared as the cover article in the Winter 2000 issue of the ASCD Curriculum-Technology Quarterly . The online version of her most recent faculty seminar, "FL Tech Strategies That Work" (presented at Wake Forest University in June 2000) may be accessed at http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/pedagog.html.