Faculty

Florence Leclerc-Dickler

Chair of Foreign Languages, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages

BA in applied foreign languages, University of Nice, France
MA in translation, Ecole de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University of Geneva, Switzerland
MBA, SUNY New Paltz

Courses Taught

All levels of French language as well as content courses: Rendez-vous en français, “Paris: je t’aime” (fall 12), Food Culture in the Mediterranean (spring 13)

Research Interests

Professor Leclerc-Dickler is currently developing a French textbook based on songs, which are the backbone of this teaching method. Each song includes specific grammatical structures as well as lexicon, which progress from the elementary to the intermediate level. The 16 songs form a musical accompanied by a textbook and audio recordings. The rationale behind this approach is to stimulate the right side of the brain to facilitate oral production of the French language by diminishing the fear factor.