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Name:
LARISSA KLEIN, Ph.D.
Description
Bienvenue! Dobro pozhalovat'! Welcome!
I teach French and
sometimes Russian at the University of Western Ontario. My course at the
Faculty of Education
is "Teaching and Learning
Theory in Intermediate-Senior French."
I was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and lived there until I graduated from high school. I then studied at Queen's, the University of Alberta, and the University of Western Ontario. My Ph.D. is in Comparative Literature, and the focus of my dissertation was authors who write for both children and adults (including Eugène Ionesco, Michel Tournier, and Daniil Kharms). After completing my Ph.D., I received my B.Ed. at Western and began my career as a secondary school French teacher.
My background in Comparative Literature has made me particularly interested in Comparative Education. In the area of Children's Literature, my most recent research has been on works that relate to September 11, as well as how teachers in the United States and Canada have dealt with and presented 9/11 in class. In Second Language research, my present focus is on bilingualism in Canada and, in particular, the attitudes and motivation of students taking Grade 9 Applied French.
I am also very interested in teacher education. One of the ways in which I want to support preservice students and new teachers is by having a section on this page where I share some of the "best ideas" for teaching FSL (French as a Second Language). Presently these ideas concern Grade 9 French, but in the future I will add other grades, too.
Those visiting this site are invited to send their own "meilleures idées" for teaching Grade 9 French to me (lklein7@uwo.ca). New ideas will be added periodically. See also my "links" where you will find useful sites for both students and teachers.
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