MIT Global Languages

Sabine

Levet

Senior Lecturer in French

slevet@mit.edu

14N-323

617-324-1473

Office hours

M 12:00-1:00, T 1:00-2:00 and by appointment

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Bio

Sabine Levet is Senior Lecturer in French in the Global Studies and Languages section at MIT. She has also taught at Brandeis University and Middlebury Summer School. She has written articles and chapters about the development of tools for cross-cultural understanding and has given talks and workshops on intercultural communication, the teaching of culture, and the use of technology in language teaching and learning.

She collaborated on the interactive documentary Dans un quartier de Paris, published by Yale University Press (1999) and the multimedia fiction A la Rencontre de Philippe (teacher's guide) published by CLE International (2006). She is one of the original developers and current Project Director of Cultura, which received a special recognition from the American Council on Education in 2010. She is also the author of the project Tramway and Vélib: changing urban space in Paris.

Research Areas / Expertise: multilingualism and cross-cultural communication

Education:
1983 M.A. Université de Paris-Sorbonne

Research

Cultura

Cultura makes use of online communication to help develop students’ intercultural competence. Typically based in a language class, a Cultura exchange involves two groups of students from two different cultures who participate in online discussion forums and compare similar materials from their respective cultures.

Publications

“Effects of Presence on Videoconferencing at the College Level,” with C. Develotte and M. Domanchin, in “Online Multimodal Communication and Intercultural Encounters: Theoretical and Educational Perspectives,” eds. Christine Develotte, Rick Kern, Routledge (under review, to be published Feb. 2017)
“Interculturality”, webinar, 2016 Fundamentals of PBLL (Project-Based Language Learning) Online Institute, National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI (Feb. 2016)
"The Cultura Model: Developing Students’ Intercultural Competence" , FLTMAG (online magazine), University of Colorado, Boulder (Jul. 2015)
“Cultura from then to now: its origins, key features, methodology and how it has evolved. Reflections on the past and musings on the future,” with G. Furstenberg, in ed. Dorothy Chun, ed. Cultura-inspired intercultural exchanges: Focus on Asian and Pacific Languages, National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI, pp. 1-32

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