Seminar on research methodology for French as a foreign or second language

lrom2317  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Seminar on research methodology for French as a foreign or second language
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.
5 credits
15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Lucchini Silvia;
Language
French
Prerequisites
To have taken, or be taking at the same time, LROM2940 Didactics of French as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Studies.
Main themes
Epistemological aspects of interpretative research.
Technical dimension of such a research.
Collecting information : - observation - interview
Analysis and interpretation of the data
Critical dimension : criteria and " scientificity ".
Aims

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

1 The objective is to get the students initiated to the reseach methodology, enabling them to have a critical judgement on research texts in didactics of French as a foreign language (for instance based on experiments). It also allows them to make some interpretative research for the dissertation.
 

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
Different phases of research: research problem, theoretical framework, objectives to aim, methodological choice, presentation and discussion of the results, conclusion.
Epistemological choices (comprehensive, explanatory and development researches): research design, definition of the features to be observed, data processing.
Teaching methods

The course includes lectures on research methodology and presentations prepared by the students on their thesis research.
Evaluation methods
A written work: drafting of  the methodological chapter of the thesis research.
Other information
This seminar is obligatory for all students who intend to do thesis on education at FLE.
Online resources
https://ucline.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=38
Bibliography
La liste bibliographique est disponible sur le site UCLine du cours.
Faculty or entity
ROM


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

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language

Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures

Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General