THERESA A. ANTES


212 Dauer Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL. 32611
(352) 392-2016 ext. 236
antes@rll.ufl.edu

 

EDUCATION:

Graduate
    --  PhD: French Linguistics, with concentration in Second Language Acquisition. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. (August             1993)
   --  MA: French Linguistics. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. (September 1992)                                                                        --  MA: French Language and Literature. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. (July 1989)
   --  Undergraduate: BA: French. Millersville University of PA. Millersville, PA. (May 1986)

DISSERTATION:

"The Effect of Enhanced Input on the Acquisition of Phonological Gender Markers in First-Year French." The dissertation examined the effects of enhanced input, contrasting learners who received vocabulary lists with specific phonological features made salient with others receiving alphabetized lists or no lists. The impact of this input on students’ overall acquisition and understanding of grammatical gender was discussed. Dissertation director: Linda R. Waugh

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Methodology, French Linguistics, Reading in a Second Language, Technology in Language Teaching

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor of French; Coordinator, First-Year French. Responsible for staffing and coordinating first-year French program and supervising Graduate Teaching Assistants. Includes approximately 40 sections per year. Attachment to the Program in Linguistics, also.

Courses taught:

Undergraduate: FRE 1130 (first-semester) , FRE 3320 (Composition and Stylistics), FRE 4850 (Structure of French), LIN 4721 (Introduction to Second Language Acquisition)

Graduate: FRE / SPN 6940 (Romance Language Teaching Methods); FRE 6943 (Supervised Teaching); LIN 6932 (Second Language Reading), FRE 6855 (Structure of French), FRE 6735 (Special Studies in French Linguistics), LIN 6720 (Introduction to Second Language Acquisition)

Assistant Professor of French; Director, French Language Program. Responsible for staffing and coordinating French basic program (first three semesters) and supervising Graduate Teaching Assistants and adjunct faculty. Includes approximately 50 sections per year (including summer sessions).

Courses taught:

Undergraduate: FRE 1010 (First Semester), FRE 1020 (Second Semester), FRE 1060 (French 1 & 2, accelerated), FRE 2010 (Third Semester). To date, I have also supervised seven Honor’s Projects in FRE 2010.

Graduate: FRE 5400 (Advanced Grammar Review, taught in French), LING 5750 (Theories of Second Language Acquisition, in English), FRE / GER / SPA 5850 / 7850 (Second Language Instruction, in English), FRE 6400 (Structure of French, taught in French). To date, I have served as an examinor on 21 M.A. examinations (providing questions for FRE 5400, FRE 6400 and / or FRE 5200 (Phonetics and Diction), and have directed 11 special research projects at the graduate level.

Courses taught: FRE 121 (First semester), FRE 122 (Second Semester), SEM 109 (Semiotics: Freshman Writing Seminar), Summer Pre-Freshman Institute (Lived on campus with pre-freshman students, participated in Freshman Writing Seminar "The Hero in Literature," read and advised on students’ drafts, conducted small group study sessions.)

Courses taught: FRE 101 (French 1), FRE 102 (French 2), FRE 106 (French 1 & 2), FRE 201 (Third Semester), FRE 202 (Fourth Semester), FRE 201A-202A (Accelerated Second Year), FRE 011 (French for Reading)

PUBLICATIONS:

Refereed Journals:

1. "Input and Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition." (1995) co-authored with Christine Moritz and Regina Roebuck. Cornell Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, Vol. 13, 1-23.

2. " The Move Towards Topic Prominence in Spoken French: Grammatical and Pedagogical Repercussions." Michigan Academician, XXVII, (1995), 503-14.

3. "Kinesics: The Value of Gesture in Language and in the Language Classroom." Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 29, (1996), No. 3, 439-448.

4. "Reaching Beyond the Least Common Denominator" Report of Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Creating Opportunities for Excellence Through Language, Emily Spinelli, (ed.), (1996), 122-135, Lincolnwood, Il.: National Textbook Co.

5. "The Impact of the National Standards on the College Foreign Language Classroom." Report of Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Standards for a New Century, Anne Nerenz (ed.), (1999), 19-31, Lincolnwood, Il: National Textbook Co.
      6.  "But Will I Ever Use this Foreign Language?" Student Perceptions of the Applicability of Foreign Language Skills," Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 32, (1999), No. 2, 219-233.


Manuscripts forthcoming:

Analyse linguistique de la langue française. Resource manual examining various aspects of French phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. This manuscript is under contract with Yale University Press; completed manuscript is due Sept. 1, 2004.

A Vous! (First-Year French), under contract with Houghton-Mifflin Co.; completed manuscript is due Dec. 1, 2004. Co-authored with Dr. Véronique Anover, California State University, San Marcos.

 

Book Reviews:

1. Dulcie M. Engel. Tense and text: A study of French past tenses. Reviewed in Studies in Language, 16:1 (1992) co-authored with Linda R. Waugh and Maher Bahloul.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

Refereed Nationally or Internationally:

1. Do L2 Learners Eat Often Apples?: A study of the resetting of the verb movement parameter by English-speaking learners of French and Spanish. with Christine Moritz and Regina Roebuck. Presented at Second Language Research Forum, Pittsburgh, PA. 3/93.

2. The Effect of Enhanced Input on the Acquisition of Phonological Gender Markers in French. Presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Montreal, Canada 10/94.

3. The Effect of Simultaneously Reading and Listening on Pronunciation / Proficiency. Presented at the Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Long Beach, CA. 3/95

4. Reaching Beyond the Least Common Denominator. Presented at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Louisville, KY. 3/96.

5. Acquisition of the Past Tenses in the Romance Languages: Not Simply a Question of Tense and Aspect. Presented at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, OH. 5/96.

6. Readers' Schemata and Cultural Stereotypes. Presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics. London, Ontario, 5/96.

7. Building Community Where There is None: The Role of Foreign Language Programs on Commuter Campuses. Presented at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Columbus, OH. 4/97.

8. "But Will I Ever Use this Foreign Language?": Student Perceptions of the Applicability of Foreign Language Skills. Presented at the Second Language Research Forum, East Lansing, MI, 10/97.

9. "Developing Communicative Testing: Bringing Placement Tests in Line with Classroom Procedures." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 4/98.

10. "Focus on Form and Meaning: What Each Tells us about Students' Proficiency." ACTFL Conference, AAUSC Special Interest Group (1 of 3 papers accepted for this SIG), 11/98.

11.  "The Impact of the National Standards on College Foreign Language Classes." The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Little Rock, AK. 4/98

12. "Explaining the Emergence of Inappropriate Background Knowledge during Second Language Reading." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington. 4/01.

13. "Tracking the Morphological Development of Interlanguage in French as a Second Language." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington. 4/01.

14. "Across the Great Divide: Making Literature Accessible to Beginning Language Students" University of California Conference on Language Learning and Teaching; Irvine, CA. 3/02

15.  "The Role of Computer-Delivered Input in Oral Production:  Ramifications for Distance Learning." CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium); University of California-Davis. 3/02

16. "Improving Negotiation of Meaning through Technology-Enriched Information Gap Activities" CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium); University of Ottawa. 5/03

 

Refereed Regionally:

1. "A Century of Language Change in Spoken French: The move toward topic prominence." Presented at The Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 3/94.

2.  "Enabling Total Language Acquisition through Small Group Activities." Presented at the Michigan Foreign Language Association, 10/97.