UAlbany, French Students Take Turns as Experts and Learners in ‘Conversation’

Lionel Tchatchoua Ngaleu, at right, speaks by Skype with a student from the Université de Haute-Alsace in France, one of three intercultural conversations she took part in this semester in her French Studies course. (Photo by Sarah O'Carroll)

Share your thoughts. Share your culture. Share your language.

Through the experience and initiative of French Studies Lecturer Véronique Martin, students in her upper level course “French Conversation” are achieving all three objectives, enhancing their language studies by way of three sessions per semester devoted to online webcasts with students in France. These interactions are a good fit with the University’s priorities of greater internationalization, engagement, and appreciation of diversity.