K-12 : Teacher Certification:: Department of Foreign Languages

Anne Grundstrom Nerenz,
Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Teaching

Dr. Anne Grundstrom Nerenz (Ph.D. 1979, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a professor of French at Eastern Michigan University. Anne teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in World Language Pedagogy, including FLAN 411 and FLAN 611: Theory and Methods of Modern Language Instruction and FLAN 412 and FLAN 612: Methods of Teaching Modern Languages in the Elementary Grades. She also supervises student teachers in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Anne holds a secondary teaching certificate and has six years of full-time teaching experience at the middle school and high school levels. Anne has also taught French at the elementary level and has organized and led three 3-week Back-to-Back cultural exchange programs to France for 4 th and 5 th grade children.

Scholarship and Service

A frequent presenter at national, regional, and state World language conferences, Dr. Nerenz has published numerous articles in refereed journals and is the co-author of beginning- and intermediate-level university textbooks as well as several literary, popular and multi-media –based readers. She is a past-president of the Michigan World Language Association and has served as co-chair of the Professional Standards Commission of the American Association of Teachers of French. Since 1992, Anne has served as local arrangements chair, program chair, and Report editor for the Central States Conference on the Teaching of World Languages. In July 2006, Anne began a two-year term as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of that regional World language organization representing and serving world language professionals at all levels in 17 mid-western states.

Awards

In 2005, Eastern Michigan University’s World language teacher certification program was cited as an exemplary program by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) New Visions in Action commission. Dr. Nerenz was also the recipient of 1997 Barbara Ort-Smith Award presented by the Michigan World Language Association in recognition of her dedication to World language education and her strong, continuous commitment and service to World language teachers and professional language associations in Michigan. She has also received the Eastern Michigan University Award for Scholarly and Creative Work (1992), the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities (1990), the Eastern Michigan University Distinguished Faculty Award (1989), and the Sauk Prairie High School Teacher of the Year Award (1982-83).

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