I owe my career to three teachers: two from high school and one from graduate school.
LILIA SPRINGER
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Lilia Springer taught me Spanish from eighth to eleventh grades at North Fulton High School in Atlanta. Ms. Springer put a premium on phonetics, something that stayed with me till this day. She was an enthusiastic explorer of new methodologies at a time of intense methodological ferment. I owe my love of learning foreign languages and my interest in how they are learned to her. |
LOUIS HECKLE
| Louis Heckle taught French at North Fulton High School and was the Chair of the Foreign Language Department. He and Ms. Springer helped design the school's two electronic classrooms. Mr. Heckle arranged for me to work in the language Lab as an assistant (and thus avoid the dreaded P.E. hour). It was Mr. Heckle who nurtured my early interest in pedagogical technology. I had a free run of the Language Lab equipment and was allowed to experiment to my heart's content. |  |
JAMES BIXLER
| Jim Bixler was the recording technician at the University of Michigan’s Language Lab. His professional studio sported Neumann microphones and vintage Ampex reel-to-reel recorders. Jim taught me recording from top to bottom. He taught me to splice tape (this was the 1970s) and got me interested in still photography. Most importantly, he taught me how to distinguish sound from the background noise. |  |
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