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I am native speaker of French. I was born and grew up in the Lyon area. I am also an experienced language instructor with a Master's Degree in Language Education from Indiana University.  I have taught mostly adults, but have always enjoyed teaching children at both elementary school and middle/high school levels.  As a trained language teacher in both French and ESL, I have an explicit knowledge of the structure of both these languages, the ability to convey all notions that relate to the use and structure of these languages, the capacity to evaluate individual language needs, as well as the ablility to design and implement student-specific instructional goals.  That said, one of the maxims I stand by as a teacher and learner is that "you learn what you do," meaning that if what you do is analyze language structure, then you learn to analyze language structure. If what you do is sit in class and listen, then you have learned to sit in class and listen.  If what you do is converse in t .. Read More

I am native speaker of French. I was born and grew up in the Lyon area. I am also an experienced language instructor with a Master's Degree in Language Education from Indiana University.  I have taught mostly adults, but have always enjoyed teaching children at both elementary school and middle/high school levels.  As a trained language teacher in both French and ESL, I have an explicit knowledge of the structure of both these languages, the ability to convey all notions that relate to the use and structure of these languages, the capacity to evaluate individual language needs, as well as the ablility to design and implement student-specific instructional goals.  That said, one of the maxims I stand by as a teacher and learner is that "you learn what you do," meaning that if what you do is analyze language structure, then you learn to analyze language structure. If what you do is sit in class and listen, then you have learned to sit in class and listen.  If what you do is converse in the target language, then that is also what you learn!