En avant! Beginning French

About the Author

Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson is a Lecturer in French at The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) where he teaches undergraduate courses on French language and culture. From 2002-2010 he served as the coordinator for beginning- and intermediate-level French courses at the University of California, Davis, where he additionally trained new graduate student instructors in foreign language pedagogy. He holds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington. His research on the acquisition of French as a second language has been published in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Research, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition, among other venues.

Annabelle Dolidon

Annabelle Dolidon, originally from Franche-Comté in France, is an Associate Professor of French at Portland State University (Oregon), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on language, literature, and cinema. She has coordinated the first-year French program there and trained graduate teaching assistants. Her research focuses on both language teaching and literature. She is the co-author of a third-year conversation textbook for the French classroom, Tu sais quoi?! (Yale University Press, 2012) and has published academic articles about contemporary French novels and films, notably in the Australian Journal of French Studies (2012) and in The French Review (2013 and 2015).