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Gilberte Furstenberg née Codaccioni
Senior Lecturer, French
gfursten@mit.edu
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Gilberte Furstenberg was born and educated in France where she received her Agregation. She taught English at the University of Paris-Nanterre, then moved to the United States where she became a correspondent for the French news magazine L'Express. Her next career move brought her to M.I.T. where she has been teaching French for the last twenty years. In her courses, from the very beginning to the advanced levels, she makes use of authentic print, video and multimedia materials in order to integrate culture into the language curriculum. She also favors a cross-cultural approach to the study of materials, as a way of accessing the different underlying values in French and American cultures.

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Her research interests lie in the development of interactive multimedia programs for learning French and developing an understanding of its culture. She is the principal author of A la Rencontre de Philippe, a pioneering interactive fiction, Dans un quartier de Paris, an interactive multimedia documentary. Both have won national and international awards and are published by Yale University Press. She is currently involved in the development of a Web-based cross-cultural project, entitled Cultura, which provides a unique comparative approach for understanding another culture.

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She has given numerous presentations, lectures and workshops in the U.S. and abroad focusing on the many uses of multimedia in the foreign language curriculum, and the subsequent new emerging role of the foreign language teacher. She is the author of pedagogical guides, articles, and chapters in books.

Software, Manuals and Workbooks:
DANS UN QUARTIER DE PARIS
CD-ROM for Macintosh computers
Teacher's Guide (co-authored with Sabine Levet)
Student Activities Workbook (co-authored with Sabine Levet)
Yale University Press, Fall 1999
A LA RENCONTRE DE PHILIPPE
Videodisc, Software, Teacher's Manual and Student Activities Workbook
Yale University Press. Fall 1993
EN DIRECT: A French Activities Workbook
co-authored with Nicole Desrosiers, Heinle and Heinle Publishers

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