Content of core modules
Module 1 : DRAMA TECHNIQUES
IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Module 2 : ORAL LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGIES
Module 3 : RADIO WITHIN THE FLE CLASSROOM
NEW
Module 4 : MULTIMEDIA IN THE LANGUAGE
CLASS (blog pedagogique)
Module 5 : STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES IN CLASSES FOR 10-16 YEAR OLDS
(How to motivate younger students)
Module 1 : 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 2 : ORAL LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGIES (based on written and
oral authentic documents)
Objectives
- 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 : RADIO WITHIN THE FLE CLASSROOM - NEW
Objectives:
- To ask about, listen and understand the contents of an audio programme.
- To discover the new possibilities offered by radio over the internet.
- To learn how to choose an extract from the radio that correlates with
specific learning objectives given.
- To elaborate on the learning process and learning activities through
the help of sound aids.
Methodology:
- A communicative approach including:
Use of implicit
grammar
Oral apprenticeship
strategies: (strategies of reception and production).
The use
of oral learning strategies.
Meta-cognitive
activities of structuring and reinventing.
-The European Common Framework of Reference.
-Research for support from and utilisation of authentic documents
-The use of exercises testing comprehension and production.
Module 4 : MULTIMEDIA IN THE LANGUAGE CLASS (only available in the
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 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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