Kate Paesani is Associate Professor of French and Director of Beginning French Courses at Wayne State University.  Her current research interests include literacy-based foreign language curriculum and instruction, literature across the curriculum, and foreign language teacher development.  Heather Willis Allen is Assistant Professor of French and French 101 Course Chair at University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She earned her Ph.D. at Emory University and specializes in L2 motivation, L2 teacher development, and literacy-based approaches to L2 instruction   Beatrice Dupuy is Professor of French and Director of the Basic French Language Program at University of Arizona and  serves as Chair of the SLAT Pedagogy Curriculum Sub-committee and Co-Director of  CERCLL. She holds a Maîtrise (in English literature) from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), a MS (in TESOL) and Ph.D. (in Education in Language, Literacy and Learning) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

• .  Understanding the Multiliteracies Framework2.  Reconsidering Goals, Objectives, and Assessment from a Multiliteracies  3.  Reconceptualizing Grammar and Vocabulary as Meaning-Making Resources 4.  Scaffolding Oral Language Use in the Classroom5.  Teaching Reading as Constructing Meaning from Texts  6  Teaching Writing as Designing Meaning through Texts7  Teaching Video-Mediated Listening as Constructing Meaning from Texts 8.  Teaching New Literacies: Constructing Meaning in Web 2.0 and Beyond