Brigitte Edelston
Staff Profile
Contact Details:
Email: b.a.s.edelston@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 385171
Qualifications
- Les L (Licence es Lettres), Lille University
- CTMLA (Certificate in Teaching Modern Languages to Adults), Dundee
- MEd. Open University
- Member of HEA
Career History
- 2007 - Full-time lecturer in French, Dundee University
- 1999-2007 Full-time Teaching Fellow in French and Joint coordinator of the Languages for All Programme, Dundee University
- 1992-1999 Part-time Teaching Fellow in French, Dundee University
- 1977-1984 Personal Assistant (Secretarial)
Teaching on Undergraduate Programme
Coordinator
- Joint coordinator of the Special Study Component in French for medical students.
Contribution
- All UG French courses (Beginners to Honours)
- Languages for All Levels 4/5 and Level 1 January class
- Vision of Europe (History and Migration Units)
Research/Scholarly Interests
- Student participation
- History of the French language
- French migration
- Development of on-line language learning material
Main publications
- "A vos marques!": an accelerated French course book for beginners and near beginners published in March 1999, (Routledge) written with Sandy Tippett-Spirtou and Alison Andrews.
- "Teach yourself French Grammar" (functional approach), (Hodder & Stoughton), written with Dr. R. Adamson and published end of August 1998. New edition published in 2003.
Main current administrative roles
- Convener for the MLT Programme
- Coordinator of the Languages for All Programme
- Joint coordinator of the SSC in French
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