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Teacher Education

Sarah Jourdain

Executive Director, Teacher Education Director, World Language Teacher Preparation

World Language Teacher Preparation

Office: Humanities 1074

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Research Interests

Foreign Language Pedagogy

Second Language Acquisition

French Linguistics  

Courses Taught at Stony Brook

  • Methods and Materials of Foreign Language Teaching (undergraduate and graduate levels), FLA 339 & FLA 505
  • Curriculum Development for Language Teaching (undergraduate and graduate levels), FLA 340 & FLA 506
  • Field Experience, FLA 449, 450, 549, 550
  • Foreign Language Acquisition Research (undergraduate and graduate levels)
  • Student Teaching Seminar (undergraduate and graduate), FLA 440 & FLA 540
  • Independent Teaching Projects (graduate level), FLA 581
  • Introductory French I & II, Intermediate French I & II, FRN 111, 112, 211, 212
  • Accelerated Intermediate French, FRN 201
  • French Conversation & French Composition (majors & minors), FRN 311 & FRN 312
  • Advanced French Stylistics (undergraduate and graduate levels), FRN 412 & FRN 507
  • Business French (undergraduate and graduate levels), FRN 410 & FRN 511
  • French Phonetics and Applied Linguistics (undergraduate and graduate levels), FRN 411 & FRN 510

 

Awards 

  • Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2010.
  • “Knight in the Order of Academic Palms”; This award is presented by the French Government for contributions to the expansion of French language and culture.

Grants

  • UISFL (Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages) Grant, 2014-2016
    • Department of Education funding (Grant #: P016A140005: $175,464) for “Developing and Strengthening Advanced Level Language Study” at Stony Brook University
  • StarTalk Grant, 2015
    • This grant, $86,000, allowed Stony Brook University to offer four less-commonly-taught, critical needs languages, Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Korean, beginning level (intensive, 6 credit, summer 2015) and intermediate level (2015-2016). It also funded 16 full tuition scholarships for these summer courses.
  • IITG (Innovative Instructional Technology Grant), SUNY, 2014-2015
    • State University of New York (SUNY) funding ($20,000) for “Building Innovative Open Korean and Japanese Courses,” 2014-2015
  • StarTalk Grant, 2014
    • This grant, $86,000, allowed Stony Brook University to offer three less-commonly-taught, critical needs languages, Arabic, Persian & Turkish, beginning level (intensive, 6 credit, summer 2014) and intermediate level (2014-2015). It also funded 15 full tuition scholarships for these summer courses.
  • SUNY-CRUE Language Teacher Training Partnership Grant, 2010-2013.
    • This grant established Stony Brook as one of four SUNY campuses to coordinate exchanges of teacher candidates between New York State and Spain. Ten Stony Brook students received year-long full scholarships (airfare, room, board, tuition), paid through the Santander Bank Foundation, to Spanish universities. The value of each scholarship was approximately $20,000.