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Laura Florand

Senior Lecturer of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Identity and Investment: Self-Portraits in Language Learning · November 17, 2012 Lecture ACTFL 2012, Philadelphia, PA
Expressing One’s Self: Identity through Multiple Media in the L2 · October 14, 2011 Lecture FLANC, Winston-Salem NC
Culture, Community, Communication: VoiceThread in Student Oral and Written Production · November 21, 2010 Lecture ACTFL 2010, Boston MA
Communication Among Peers: Conveying Meaning, Building Voice · April 30, 2010 Lecture 10th Annual Instructional Technology Showcase, Duke University
Multimedia Discussions Beyond Classroom Walls · April 15, 2010 Lecture Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) Conference, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Extending Language Communities Beyond the Classroom: Using VoiceThread for Language Proficiency · March 11, 2010 Lecture University of West Georgia
Gastronomie et Identité: Une Conversation avec Laura Florand · March 10, 2010 Lecture University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Blame It on French: From UWG to Tahiti to Paris · March 10, 2010 Lecture University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Language and Culture through Creative Films · November 21, 2009 Lecture American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Language Expo, San Diego, California
Speak, Write, Listen, Watch...Engage: VoiceThread in the Language Course · September 29, 2009 Lecture Language and Pedagogy Round Table Series, Duke University
Cinématographie: Integrating Culture and Language in Student-Produced Video · April 24, 2009 Lecture 9th Annual Instructional Technology Showcase, Duke University
Focusing on Film: A Two-Pronged Approach to Student Video · December 12, 2008 Lecture CIT Student Video Fellows, Duke University
Communicating about Culture: Student-Produced Podcasts · October 11, 2008 Lecture Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Service to Duke


Machine Translation Thompson Writing Program Grant · November 17, 2011 - July 1, 2012 Other

Working Groups ; Research on student attitudes toward machine translation in language classes, with the goal of recommending best pedagogical practices toward machine translation use in language courses. Grant led by Deborah Reisinger and Joan Clifford.

Faculty Lead . CIT Oral Assignments Fellows · December 1, 2009 - June 1, 2010 Other

Institutional Service

CIT Student Video Fellows (University) · June 1, 2008 - June 1, 2009 Committee Service Duke University