CUEFUniversity Center for French Studies

Public

This workshop is intended for teachers of French as a foreign language who wish to develop teaching materials to incorporate into their lesson plans.

Objectives

• Reviewing the Concepts of Progression and Coherence in a Instructional Unit
• Design the outline for a series of lessons that is part of a teaching unit (communicative objectives, linguistic objectives, and sociocultural objectives).
• Create a lesson that is part of this unit:
  • Select an authentic document that is appropriate for the target level and objectives
  • Using Authentic Documents for Instructional Purposes (Creating a Listening and Reading Comprehension Worksheet)
  • Use authentic texts as a corpus for observing the linguistic elements to be acquired (adopt an inductive approach to grammar)
  • Create grammar and vocabulary exercises (of various types and tailored to the students' needs)
  • Designing topics for oral and written assignments

How we work

Teachers will have the opportunity to work individually or in small groups to apply the theory covered throughout the training in a very practical way.

Bibliography

• Bertocchini, P., Constanzo, E., (2008), Practical Training Manual for FLE Teachers, Clé International
• Beacco, J. (2007). The Competence-Based Approach to Language Teaching. Didier
• Courtillon, J. (2003). Developing a French as a Foreign Language Course. Hachette
• Laurens, V. (2012). A Comparative Analysis of the Teaching Unit and the Teaching Sequence, *Le français aujourd’hui*, “FLM, FLS, FLE Beyond Categories,” No. 176, Armand Colin
• Puren, C. (2006). “The Action-Oriented Approach: Toward a New Pedagogical Coherence, ” FDLM, Nov–Dec, 348.
• Robert, J-P., Rosen, E., Reinhardt, C. (2011). Teaching French as a Foreign Language: An Action-Oriented and Pragmatic Approach, Hachette.
• Rosen, E. (2008). An Update on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, Clé International.

Instructors

Caroline Sperandio
Valérie Blasco