Rate My Professor Liliane Fucaloro

Professor Liliane Fucaloro is the Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She holds a Ph.D. and is a native speaker of French, specializing in seventeenth-century French literature. Fluent in German, Spanish, and English, Fucaloro brings extensive teaching experience in French language, linguistics, and French civilization at secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. As an associate professor, she developed and secured a grant for a state-of-the-art language laboratory at Cal Poly Pomona, significantly enhancing technological resources for language instruction and learning. Her long-standing career at the institution includes leadership roles documented across multiple academic catalogs from the early 2000s through 2019, overseeing undergraduate programs such as the B.A. in English with subplans in Literary Studies, English Education, and Applied Language Studies, the B.A. in Spanish, various minors including English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Writing Studies, and TESOL, as well as the M.A. in English with subplans in Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Fucaloro's research interests encompass technological applications for language teaching, oral proficiency assessment, and foreign language methodology. Key publications include "Assessing a Virtual Course: Development of a Model" (1998, co-authored with Karen Russikoff), which piloted an assessment model for an online upper-division French civilization course, evaluating effects on faculty-student contact, feedback mechanisms, student time on task, learning styles, technological requirements, and faculty workload. Another significant work is "Plagiarism as a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon" (2003, The CATESOL Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 109-120, co-authored with Karen A. Russikoff and Dalia Salkauskiene), analyzing plagiarism perceptions and practices among students from the USA, China, Latvia, and Lithuania through surveys highlighting cultural, pedagogical, and technological influences. She has supported university initiatives, including assistance for the 2016 theater production of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and contributions to curriculum approvals and academic governance as department chair.