About Us
Our mission is to stimulate students to make linguistic and cultural connections and foster cultural and linguistic identity by weaving key features of conventional content together with sound technological and pedagogical innovation.
Our Team
We are three language educators who, collectively, represent over 60 years of French language and culture teaching. Our passion is to marry the unique capabilities of state-of-the-art technologies with research-tested language pedagogies with the goal of creating exciting, effective, fun, and informative learning experiences for secondary and post-secondary students by integrating extensive exploration of francophone cultures with acquisition of the French language and integrated skills performance.
Patricia J Kyle, Ph.D.
Project Director, University of Texas at Austin
Director of Online Language Learning in the Department of French and Italian, Senior Coordinator for Languages Online for the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, and Affiliated Faculty for the Center for European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Kyle leads a highly-skilled team of language professionals in the development of innovative language curricula designed for use in online, hybrid, blended, and traditional environments. She holds a PhD in French Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington where she specialized in second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, as well as the Master of Business Administration and the Master of Arts in Information and Learning Technologies from the University of Colorado.
Yasmina Fawaz, Ph.D.
Media Coordinator, University of Texas at Austin
Research associate for the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Fawaz holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Texas at Austin where she specialized in Postcolonial Ecocriticism and African literature, as well as an MA in French literature from the University of Georgia. Yasmina is a native French speaker with over a decade of experience teaching university level French language and culture courses. She is a co-author of Connexions Francophones and specializes in the development of online language courses, project management, and media coordination of graphic design, video, and audio production.
Fanny Macé, Ph.D.
Creative Coordinator, University of Texas at Austin
Research associate for the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Macé holds a PhD in French Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in computer-mediated discourse and critical discourse analysis, as well as a Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Tours in France. She is native French speaker with over a decade of experience teaching French at the college level, including a one-year lectureship at Harvard University.
Editorial Board
Patricia J Kyle, University of Texas at Austin
Yazz Fawaz, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Kahozi, University of Texas at Austin
Fanny Macé, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Mayne, University of Texas at Austin
Shawn Morrison, College of Charleston
Ryan Swankie, University of Texas at Austin
Advisory Board
Patricia J Kyle, University of Texas at Austin
David Birdsong, University of Texas at Austin
Carl Blyth, University of Texas at Austin
Paola Bonifazio, University of Texas at Austin
Catherine Caws, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Carol Chappelle, Iowa State University
Nicolas Guichon, Université du Québec à Montréal
Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado State University
Robert Kleinsasser, Arizona State University
Charles Pooser, Indiana University
Sophie Queuniet, Columbia University
Mary Vogl, Colorado State University
Brett Wells, University of Pittsburgh
Contributors
Molly Deaver, University of Texas at Austin
Karina High, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Kahozi, University of Texas at Austin
Karine Macarez, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Martin, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Mayne, University of Texas at Austin
Shawn Morrison, College of Charleston
Laurie Ramsey, University of the South (Emerita)
Ryan Swankie, University of Texas at Austin