Didactics and practice of spoken French as the mother tongue

lrom2950a  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Didactics and practice of spoken French as the mother tongue
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
45.0 h + 15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Dufays Jean-Louis;
Language
French
Prerequisites
To start the observatory teaching practice the same year.
Main themes
The course will take bearings on the cardinal questions that every French teacher has. These questions can be for instance: what is at stake ? What are the objectives and the tools to teach French ? What are the teaching and assessment methods ? ,.... The conceptual and methodological outlines will also be seen, allowing the teacher to develop the pupils' reading, writing and oral expression skills, following the requirment of the school. It will also give the pupils some reference knowledge in the language and literature field. The course will also present some entire didactic sequences, which will illustrate the diversity, complementarity and coherence of the activities, that need to be implemented when teaching French. These different objectives will be based on a bibliographical system of reference and on numerous stimulating documents.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 To initiate, theoretically and through practice, to the notions, methods and disciplinary tools neccesary to be a French teacher for French as a first language.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
14 lectures :
1. The main questions : issues, objectives and tools for teaching French, methods of teaching and assessment.
2. Knowledge and skills for teaching French: language, literature, reading, writing,  speaking.
3. Some sequences as an example: poetry, life stories, songs.
6 sessions of practical work : how to begin a course or a class, promoting speaking, promoting both the reading and writing of functional and literary texts, using pictures and sounds and designing a long-term teaching plan.
Teaching methods
The lectures are interspersed with a variety of practical exercises which enable the students to trial different teaching activities which they could use for their teaching practice. The lectures contain a strong interactive element, both spoken and written, between the lecturer and the students.
Evaluation methods
Written assignment setting out a teaching plan made up of elements from different parts of the course and the practical exercises, the programmes analysed and individual reading from the course bibliography. Additional oral examination on what has been covered in the course.
Other information
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Bibliography
Principal ouvrage de référence : SIMARD, Claude, DUFAYS, Jean-Louis, DOLZ, Joaquim et GARCIA-DEBANC, Claudine, Didactique du français langue première, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2010. Les étudiants reçoivent en outre un vadémécum bibliographique de 80 pages qui présente les principales ressources relatives aux différents objets de la didactique du français.
Faculty or entity
ROM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Teacher Training Certificate (upper secondary education) - Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures

Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures