FACULTY
Christiane Métral
Lecturer
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Hatfield 301 |
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585-3460 |
Christiane Métral, a dual citizen of France and Switzerland, received a Maîtrise universitaire/Master of Arts from the Université de Genève, and began teaching at Smith in 1996. Her focus is foreign language pedagogy and cross-cultural communication . She holds a certification as an oral proficiency examiner through the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Métral teaches French language courses at all levels, a literature course and the January term immersion course in French oral expression. In the spring she offers a course on cultural communication where students have weekly live conversations through web-cam and videoconferencing technology, with French students from a prestigious college in Paris. She co-directed the Junior Year Abroad program in Geneva in 2004-2005.
