Nora Megharbi Nora Megharbi is currently a lecturer at the University of California in Santa Cruz and serves as Coordinator of the French Program. A native of Paris, she has taught both in France and in the United States. She received her PhD. in Applied Lingistics / Second Language Acquisition from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Her research focuses on language teaching, pedagogical grammar and the use of multimedia and technology. At the University of Texas at Austin, she was a member of the development team for an online reference grammar of French entitled Tex's French Grammar (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/index.html), and a multimedia-based first-year French program, Franï¿ais Interactif (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/). She designed materials for the first-year program project using video, multimedia technology, and Internet resources. Read More Read Less