ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the use of interactive e-journals as a tool to expand the breadth and scope of the language classroom and as a means to include diverse French and Francophone women’s voices and new media forms of artistic expression by women. In August 2014, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages published a “Global Competence Position Statement,” affirming the language classroom as a key location for the development of global competence, which entails the exploration of diverse perspectives. Informal writing serves as an important formative task for students learning to use linguistic structures and to communicate in a foreign language. For the e-journal assignment, all three modes of communication are in play: presentational, interpretive, and interpersonal. The foreign-language classroom is evidently of central value as a locus to foster intercultural competence and to develop global citizenry.
