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Lesley Smith

Title: Instructor of French
Basic Courses Director
Department: Languages, Literatures & Cultures
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: smithle9@email.sc.edu
Resources: Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Lesley Smith is Director of Basic Courses and Instructor of French. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester, UK. She specializes in the acquisition of French by learners in the United States and teaches classes of all levels about French language and linguistics.  
 
From a research perspective, she is interested in the role of affective individual differences, such as anxiety and motivation, in language acquisition. She is also interested in the implementation of research-driven teaching methods through language learning technology, as her dissertation focused on psycholinguistic approaches to language teaching.

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