Linda Skaife French Instructor, Foreign Language Department West Valley Community College Phone: 408 741-2519

linda_skaife@wvmccd.cc.ca.us

Courses Taught at West Valley College

Courses taught during the Spring 2006 Semester: French 1A: Beginning French French 1A-Homestudy: Beginning French French 1B-Homestudy: Beginning French, 2nd Semester

Academic Background

B.A., History, University of California, Davis One year undergraduate study, University of Bordeaux, France M.A., French, California State University, Sacramento Additional graduate work, Claremont Graduate School

Experience

• 25 years full-time teaching in the West Valley-Mission Community College District.
• 15 years Foreign Language Department Chair, Mission College
• 3 years private school teaching
• Author of 3 books on communicative techniques in foreign language teaching
• Presenter of numerous workshops for FL organizations throughout the state
• Previous Instructor for Summer Seminar For Language Teachers at UC Santa Barbara

Organizations

• FLASCC (Foreign Language Association of Santa Clara County); past president
• FLANC (Foreign Language Association of Northern California)
• CLTA (California Language Teacher's Association)
• AATF (American Association of Teacher's of French)

Some useful French-related Websites

• For travel:

  http://us.franceguide.com/

  http://www.france.com/

• For a long list of links that lead to a wealth of information--Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links: http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
• An especially good resource for French history: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/french_history/index.htm
• For information on Paris: http://www.paris.org
• Comprehensive links to French resources around the world--Canada, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Belgium, and France: http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/freweb.html
• General culture (in French):

  http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture
  http://web.culture.fr

• French search engines (moteurs de recherche francophones):

  Yahoofrance: http://fr.yahoo.com/
  Voilý: http://www.nomade.fr/
  Ecila: http://www.ecila.nomade.fr/
  Nomade: http://www.nomade.fr/
  Lokace: http://www.lokace.fr/

• Miscellaneous travel, songs, food, proverbs, and fables--La France des teroirs: http://www.france-des-terroirs.com/songs.html
• For children's songs: Mama Lisa's Children's Songs: http://www.mamalisa.com/world/france.html
• For French song lyrics:

  http://www.ramdam.com/cat/108.htm
  http://www.paroles.net/
  http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/Art_et_culture/Musique/Paroles/
  http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm

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Revised February 2, 2006 by Linda Skaife; e-mail address: linda_skaife@wvmccd.cc.ca.us