Dr. Chelsea Tanous

Author: Professeure Tanous

  • DHS Europe Trip 2025

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    I’ll be acting as Group Leader for an EF trip to Germany, France, and Spain during Summer 2025. As this will be my first student trip, I’ve chosen to work with Education First. Many other schools in the area have planned trips through this company, and I have heard many positive reviews from fellow teachers.…

  • Global Studies, Post-Elections

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    I’ve passed the baton of the Global Studies course to a colleague for this quarter. However, my colleague asked me to substitute for her on two days, and it so happened that the material to be discussed on these days included the text I was the least proud of creating from the last two years…

  • Biology Workshop Completed

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    The Fall 2016 Biological Topics in French pilot workshop has ended. The two student groups presented their excellent collaborative final projects in a session attended by instructors and faculty of the Department of French and Italian at UCSB. To see PDF files of the students’ final presentations, follow this link. The following are student comments from…

  • Register for FR 10B!

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    Biological Topics in French is now available for registration! See the course website for more information.

  • Biological Topics in French

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    The Department of French and Italian at the University of California at Santa Barbara has been awarded a Rosati Instructional Improvement Grant for the purpose of creating a discipline-specific French language workshop in Biology to launch in Fall 2016. I am excited to announce that I will be working under the guidance of the Chair…

  • French for Global Studies

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    In the Department of French and Italian at UC Santa Barbara, French 6 is the course that rounds out the end of the second-year French sequence, in which students complete a review of French grammar. The course emphasizes speaking, reading, and writing through study of French and Francophone history, politics, language policy, and culture within a global…

  • French Talent Night 2016

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    In Winter 2016, the Department of French and Italian sponsored the first French Talent Night at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The French Talent Night was conceptualized as a way to provide a new cultural event to students of French at UCSB, and to allow them the opportunity to express themselves in a…

  • American Association of Applied Linguistics and Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée: 2015 Conference

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    I recently presented my poster, titled Embodied activities in casual and classroom conversation, at the combined American Association of Applied Linguistics/Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée in Toronto, CA. My presentation explored second language learners’ use of gesture and affect tokens (laughter, smiling, nodding, and head shaking) in formal and informal discourse. I received wonderfully helpful feedback on my poster, met new…

  • AAAL/ACLA 2015

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    I’ve been accepted to give a poster presentation at the combined 2015 conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics and L’Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée, and I am thrilled. This will be my first national conference presentation! It will also be the first time I present in any conference that I didn’t take part in organizing.…