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Sylvie Pressman
Sylvie Pressman
Associate Professor
World Languages and Cultures
Ph.D., Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Sylvie Pressman, an associate professor of French, is a native of France. She holds a Ph.D. from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She has been teaching languages in France, England, California, Colorado and Massachusetts. Her areas of interest are literature, civilization. and language teaching pedagogy.
Ìn 1999, Septentrion Presses Universitaires published her book, Étude comparée de l’immigration ancienne et récente à Lawrence et à Lowell, deux anciens centres textiles du Massachusetts, 1950-1995. She has given presentations on Proust, Malarmé and on topics concerning immigrants such as “French-Canadians in Lowell” and “Bilingual Education in Massachusetts.”
When she was chair of the language department at Merrimack College she started a program for Teachers of Foreign Languages approved by the Massachusetts Education Department for Secondary and Middle School. She continues to help our students study or work in France. Many of our students work as teaching assistants of English in French Schools.
Prof. Pressman has been involved in teacher preparation for many years. She gives courses to prepare French teachers for the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure in French for which she has also written a guide. She gives seminars for Professional Development Points or Graduate Credits in French to middle and secondary school Teachers.