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Call Me "Madame": Re-Presenting Culture in the French Language Classroom
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Siskin, H. Jay – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This study examines autobiographies of American teachers of French in order to make explicit their beliefs regarding French language and culture. The themes of class and power are prominent in these teachers' belief systems, as is the desire for self-transformation through mastery of French and miming a subset of French behaviors. These notions…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Nationalism, Autobiographies, French