Janine Spencer
Department of French and Italian

Janine Spencer, (Ph.D. Northwestern), College Lecturer in French, Director of the Multimedia Learning Center (M.M.L.C.), and coordinator of second-year French. Her areas of interest include material development for oral and written communication, instructional technology in foreign language instruction and alternate models of instruction. She has received several grants to incorporate technology in foreign language instruction and she has given workshops and presentations on this topic at local, regional, and national conferences. She is currently completing a two-year study on the effectiveness of internet-based interactive foreign language learning. The research project carried out with faculty of the Searle Center on Teaching Excellence and the Kellogg School of Business was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Spencer headed the team that created InterNef, a website that provides ongoing pedagogical support to teachers of French in the U.S; the site was created through a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. She has recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as from the Florence Gould Foundation to produce an interactive website on the Picpus cemetery in Paris, a follow up in the documentary film, Picpus: The Walled Garden of Memory (also supported by the NEH and the Florence Gould Foundation).

j-spencer@northwestern.edu