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Content of core modules 2012

 

Module 1: ORAL LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGIES
Module 3: MULTIMEDIA IN THE LANGUAGE CLASS (blog pedagogique)
Module 4: DRAMA TECHNIQUES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Module 5: STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES IN CLASSES FOR 10-16 YEAR OLDS (How to motivate younger students)

Module 1 : ORAL LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGIES (based on written and oral authentic documents)


Objective
- Study phenomena related to the acquisition of communication skills in French as a foreign language
- Develop the linguistic abilities of the students
- Develop awareness of each student’s learning strategies and adapt one’s teaching strategies accordingly
- Put in place a teaching strategy structured around oral communication
- Help students develop confidence in oral understanding & expression

Methodology
- Communicative approach
- The role of the teacher and the role of the student
- Common European Framework of Reference
- Finding materials and using authentic documents:

(a) Audio and audiovisual documents
Radio - news programs, interviews
Television - extracts from films, T.V. news, and documentaries
Songs & music videos
Advertisements
Comedy sketches

(b) Written and artistic documents:
- Oral learning strategies: listening and expression
- Oral teaching strategies
Types of oral communication
Meta-cognitive activities – structuring and reinvesting acquired knowledge
Implicit grammar
Role games and creative exercises
Conceiving comprehension and expression exercises


Module 3 : MULTIMEDIA IN THE LANGUAGE CLASS


Objectives

- Become autonomous in the use of multimedia
- Integrating multimedia into the didactics of the classroom

Methodology
- Information and computer technology
- Multimedia computer environment
- Windows operating system
- E-mail
- Treatment of text
- Internet
- On line resources for teachers
- Search engines and the teaching of French
- Different types of written styles native to the web
- Creating a lesson plan
- Obtaining a digital photo
- Legal aspects and copyright
- An overview of software for creating websites

Module 4 : DRAMA TECHNIQUES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING


Objectives

- Use of drama techniques as a teaching aid in learning French as a foreign language
- Use of drama expression as a teaching aid
- Work on some basic areas: voice (intensity, intonation), expressing feelings and opinions, association of gesture and voice

Methodology:
- Teacher and actor: the same job
- Techniques of group dynamics
- Activities focusing on verbal (voice, intonation, pronunciation, rhythm, speed) and non-verbal (gestures, mime, body language) components of the language
- Activities focusing on lexical work (vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, register, everyday French)
- Listening comprehension activities
- Oral expression techniques (breathing, articulating, voice projection)
- Techniques for interpreting in situations (intonation, rhythm)
- Directorial techniques (use of space)
- Drama techniques and grammar
- Guided improvisation and free improvisation
- Applying drama techniques to a written document
- Drama techniques and teaching children
- Drama techniques and teaching teenagers


Module 5 : STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES IN A CLASS FOR 10-16 YEARS OLDS (How to motivate younger students)


Objectives
- To examine the phenomena related to the learning of French as a foreign language by junior students.
- To develop the linguistic abilities of the students while maintaining their interest and a relationship with them.
- To get to know the strategic characteristics of the students and adapt teaching strategies accordingly.
- To put in place a teaching method, structured because institutional but also associated with a dynamic pedagogy of the language.
- To know how to manage and overcome difficulties linked to relationships with and between students.
- To know how to evaluate.
- To optimise teaching conditions and access to authentic documents.

Methodology
- The communicative approach
- The role of the learner
- The role of the teacher: psychological markers, interpersonal skills, authority, etc.
- The Common European Framework of Reference applied to junior students
- Analysis of linguistic and psychological needs: psycholinguistics
- Analysis of reactions: lack of motivation, lack of interest and reaction, problems of discipline
- Evaluation
- Finding materials and using authentic documents:
Radio: news, interviews…
Television: extracts from films, T.V. news, documentaries…
Songs, music videos…
Advertising
Sketches
Newspapers and magazines
Games…
Advertising
Literary texts: novels, poetry, etc.
Oral learning strategies: strategies for acquiring and reproducing language
Oral teaching strategies
Types of oral and written communication
Meta-cognitive activities, structuring and reinvesting acquired knowledge
Implicit grammar
Role games and creative exercises
Conceiving comprehension and expression exercises
Introducing and working on cultural matters

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