2024-2025 / AESS0069-1

The specifics of teaching French as a foreign language (part II)

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in French and Romance languages and literature : French as a foreign language, teaching focus3 crédits 
 Certified upper secondary education teacher3 crédits 

Lecturer

Deborah Meunier

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The teaching activity "Questions pratiques" is intended to be a forum for exchanges with practitioners specialized in French as a foreign or second language.

It tackles various educational issues that brought up daily in teaching French as a foreign or second language, for example:



  • the first lessons, icebreaker activities and methods to privilege with beginners,
  • phonetics,
  • evaluation of level of ability and particular needs of learners,
  • supervision of written activities,
  • supervision of oral activities,
  • theater,
  • vocabulary,
  • conversation tables,
  • critical utilisation of manuals,
  • interculturality.
The teaching activity "Problématique des immigrés..." prepares participants to teach French to different types of immigrant communities, with the particular aim of facilitating their social integration in Belgique francophone.

The course first of all presents the different aspects: sociological, academic, cultural and linguistic, which determines the learning of the French language in a migration context. The course then deals with the general principles of conditions experienced by immigrants, as a variety of concrete situations that immigrants (and their children) must confront, either before or after arriving in their host country.

From the analysis of various situations and experiences of "primo-arrivants" and teachers, we will see the appropriation experience and profiles of immigrants, pedagogical and didactic approaches (intercultural, by project, etc.). But also the resources and plans developed in Belgium and elsewhere.

This course is intended to be a forum for exchanges with practitioners specialized in French as a foreign or second language.

It tackles various educational issues that brought up daily in teaching French as a foreign or second language, for example:

  • the first lessons, icebreaker activities and methods to privilege with beginners,
  • phonetics,
  • theatre in the classroom,
  • evaluation of level of ability and particular needs of learners,
  • supervision of written activities,
  • supervision of oral activities,
  • vocabulary,
  • conversation tables,
  • critical utilisation of manuals,...

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The course "Questions pratiques" aims to ...

  • test theoretical knowledge by confronting it with more empirical thinking,
  • deepen specific didactic questions,
  • consider the different types of skills (written, oral, lexical, phonetic, grammatical, communicative, intercultural ...) to work in the classroom,
  • develop a reflexive and critical posture about contents, methods, activities, tools (referentials, manuals).
Upon completion of the course "Problématique des immigrés..." students should be able to:

  • master and adequately use the terminology and concepts relating to immigration and to the teaching FSL
  • identify and relativize stereotypes
  • develop activities according to the pedagogy of the project, and an action-oriented and intercultural approach
  • use and evaluate the relevance of repositories of skills and training tools, including evaluation, specific to an immigrant public
  • define learning objectives according to the public
  • distinguish profiles and teaching-learning situations FFL, FSL, FLSco and alpha- FFL
  • develop critical thinking on institutional reception facilities for newcomers and integration policy.

The course aims to ...



  • test theoretical knowledge by confronting it with more empirical thinking,
  • deepen specific didactic questions,
  • consider the different types of skills (written, oral, lexical, phonetic, grammatical, communicative, intercultural ...) to work in the classroom,
  • develop a reflexive and critical posture about contents, methods, activities, tools (referentials, manuals).
 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Corequis: training courses

Corequis: stages pédagogiques

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course "Questions pratiques" is given in the form of a seminar in which the students are expected to participate actively. Practical exercises and case studies are frequently used, and specialists are often invited to speak.

The mode of teaching "Problématique des immigrés..." to be interactive. The students will work in groups and will be sought throughout the course to react to readings, meetings, experiences made in the course or outside.

This course is given in the form of a seminar in which the students are expected to participate actively. Practical exercises and case studies are frequently used, and outside specialists are often invited to speak. Several MOOC sequences "Moi, prof de FLE" will also be exploited by the speakers.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course

Face-to-face course

Recommended or required readings

Various bibliographic documents and references are communicated to the participants.

Various bibliographic documents and references are communicated to the participants throughout the course.

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam(s) in session

May-June exam session

- In-person

oral exam

Written work / report


Additional information:

Questions pratiques : Mandatory participation in seminars.

Writing of a portfolio of individual professional development, reflexive vocation, where the student must mobilize knowledge and know-how developed through thematic seminars, in connection with his professional practice.

Session : June



Problématique des immigrés... ;

oral examination

Session : June

Written work / report


Additional information:

Mandatory participation in seminars.

Writing of a portfolio of individual professional development, reflexive vocation, where the student must mobilize knowledge and know-how developed through thematic seminars, in connection with his professional practice.

  
Session : June

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Questions pratiques : Face-to-face. Wednesdays spread over the academic year, from 13 to 16,  room 5/16

The dates will be communicated to the students during the first class.

Problématique des immigrés... : Second semester on Wenesday from 10:00 to 12:00 a.m. room S50

All the resources of the course are accessible on eCampus.

Face-to-face. Wednesdays, from 13 to 16, local 5/16
The dates will be communicated to the students during the first class.

Contacts

Deborah MEUNIER

Université de Liège
Place du 20-Août, 7, Bat. A2, 4/47
B-4000 Liège

dmeunier@uliege.be 

Secrétariat : Ariane Nüsgens Ariane.Nusgens@uliege.be 

Deborah MEUNIER

Université de Liège
Place du 20-Août, 7, Bat. A2, 4/47
B-4000 Liège

dmeunier@uliege.be 

Secrétariat : Ariane Nüsgens Ariane.Nusgens@uliege.be 

Association of one or more MOOCs

The MOOC entitled 'Moi, prof de FLE (P3)' is associated with this course.

The MOOC entitled 'Moi, prof de FLE (P3)' is associated with this course.