Edwina Spodark is Professor of French at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.  She has been working with computer assisted language learning since 1983.  Her article "Integrating Online Techniques into Undergraduate French Language Instruction" appeared in the special pedagogy issue of the French Review, Vol. 74, No. 6 in May 2001 and her essay "The Changing Role of the Teacher: A Technology-Enhanced, Student-Centered Lesson on French Fashion" is available in Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 34, No. 1., Jan/Feb 2001.  Her other articles include “The Tek.Xam as a Framework for Pre-service Foreign Language Teacher Technology Training” in Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 35, No. 4, July/August 2002, "Fostering Technology Use Among Second-Wave Foreign Language Faculty" in The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2002, and “Five Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts University” which appears in Technological Horizons in Education Journal Vol. 30, No. 8, March 2003.  Her article "Weaving the Web into Teaching the Culture of Québec," which appeared in the March 2004 (Vol. 77, No. 4) French Review, was awarded the Edouard Morot-Sir Pedagogical Prize by the Institut Français de Washington. "French in Cyberspace: An online French course for undergraduates" appears in Volume 22, No. 1, September 2004 of the CALICO Journal and her article "Technoconstructivism for the Undergraduate Foreign Language Classroom" was published in Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 38, no. 3, Fall 2005. Dr. Spodark's next conference presentation will be "A Technoconstructivist Approach to Teaching Creative Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom" at the annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching in Myrtle Beach, VA on April 3, 2008. (last updated 3/20/08)

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