Lecturer
Coordinator, French Language Program
Phone: (07) 3138 1742
Fax: (07) 3138 4012
Email: b.atherton@qut.edu.au
Location: Room Z1140 Gardens Point
Qualifications
DEUG Paris, BA(Hons) PhD Qld, NAATI 3 (I/T)
Career Summary
Dr Béatrice Atherton is Coordinator of the French Language Program. She taught at the University of Queensland before joining QUT in 1992. She is actively involved in professional associations at state and national levels as President of the MLTAQ French Teachers' Branch and Secretary of FATFA (Federation of Associations of Teachers of French in Australia). She helped establish a range of exchange agreements with French universities and is currently developing online collaboration projects with partner universities in France and New Caledonia.
Teaching Areas
- French language and culture
Research Interests
- multiculturalism in contemporary France
- French for Business
- translation and interpreting
- online teaching and learning of languages
Supervision
MA Research
- An examination of business culture differences in multinational companies with French ties operating in Australia
- Investigating the importance of grammatical awareness in Years 8 and 9 French classes
Recent Publications
'La main–d'oeuvre néo-hébridaise en Nouvelle–Calédonie (1865-1930), Société d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle–Calédonie, Nouméa (2003).
'Le programme e-Legal: l'apport des TICE dans une pédagogie de projet', paper presented at the FIPF Asia-Pacific Conference, Taipei (2006).