Dr. Leona Leblanc (Ph.D., University of Kansas) specializes in second language acquisition, college foreign language instruction,post-secondary articulation and curriculum development and foreign language instructors' preparation.   As the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, she is also responsible for all teaching assistants in French.  The author of a critical edition of  Noël du Fail's Prospos rustiques (The Scholar's Press, 1976), she now works exclusively in SLA; her work has appeared in The French Review, the ADFL Bulletin, and College Teaching among others.  Her current research focuses on the use and impact of technology in second language acquisition.

Dr. Leblanc has received several awards including the Sir Edouard Morot Pedagogical Prize (1998).  She was Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, from 1992-1994 and will head the Institute for French High School Teachers at its inception.