FR411 : Methods of Teaching French as a Foreign Language

Department

Department of French Language

Academic Program

Bachelor in French Language

Type

Compulsory

Credits

01

Prerequisite

Overview

This course introduces students to basic concepts and definitions in applied linguistics- methods of teaching French as a foreign language - such as the concept of mother tongue, second language and foreign language through a case study strategy. The course also introduces applied linguistics and its objectives. This course mainly aims to help the student to reuse the theoretical concepts studied during the lectures in thinking about his individual learning of languages ​​by presenting a written text explaining his relationship to the languages ​​he speaks or learns and the strategies he uses. The course aims to enhance the student's abilities to think critically in the field of learning and teaching languages.

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the student should be able to:

  • Distinguish between the mother tongue, the second language, and the foreign language, and identifying them through a case studies.
  • Remember the history of the French language.
  • Distinguish between stages of learning.
  • Distinguish between the external and the internal motives in learning languages.
  • Distinguish between the types of strategies.
  • Analyze his personal experience in learning language.

Teaching and learning methods

The course is explained through a case study and put it forward for a discussion to reach to the concepts to be explained, then by giving a lecture. Exercises, questions and answers are also used in some of lectures.

Methods of assessments

Student assessment in this course consists of five elements:

  • Attendance out of 5 marks
  • Case analysis out of 5 degrees
  • Analyzing his personal experience with languages and submitting it in writing, it is out of 10 marks
  • Midterm exam out of 20 marks.
  • Final exam (the written exam), out of 60 marks.

The Main Contents of the Course

The course contents are divided into 12 weeks:

1. General theoretical concepts

2. General theory concepts

3. Language acquisition

4. Acquisition and learning

5. Learning and teaching French as a foreign language: Introducing the scientific field

6. Science and Teaching of French as a Foreign Language: A History of French as a Foreign Language

7. Learning process: stages of learning

8. The learning process: the effect of age on language learning

9. Learning Process: Motivation and Language Learning

10. Learning process: learning strategies

11. Supervising and following up of writing the students' personal experience in learning languages

12. A lecture to discuss the most important thing that has been studied and the extent to which students benefit from it, and to listen to students' opinions

The Basic Sourses and References of the Course

  • Cuq, J-p. (2008). Cours de didactique du français langue étrangère et seconde, PUG, Grenoble
  • Cuq, J-P. Dictionnaire de didactique du français langue étrangère et seconde, CLE internationale