FLE 6201 METHODS OF TEACHING THE FRENCH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

General Objectives:

-To equip students with professional skills in the teaching of the French Language focusing on the communication and pragmatic skills acquired at intermediate and advanced levels.

To enable them teach the language in secondary school as well as French for specific purposes,

To equip them with general procedures of teaching and planning, as well as tools of assessment and evaluation.

Specific objectives:

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

-  Effectively plan a lesson.

-  Interact with a degree of fluency.

-  Use different modern Approaches in a language class.

-  Produce a clear and detailed explanation as to how communication can be realized by learners of a foreign language with a degree of fluency.

-  Effectively evaluate the learners

Week / Content
1 & 2 / Introduction to francophone Authors; “On y va 3”, “Le manguier‘ Littérature francophone, niveau Débutant et Intermédiaire etc.
3, 4 &5 / Introduction to different Approaches, Traditional, Audio-visual, and the modern Approaches e.g. communicative
6 &7 / Planning a lesson
•Literary objectives
•Socio-Linguistic objectives
8 / Introduction to different types of texts
9 , 10 & 11 / Techniques of exploiting different texts; literary texts, authentic Documents etc
•Observation
• Exploration
• Pragmatic
12 / Assessment
13 / Creative teaching in a Foreign Language classroom
14 / Different ways of evaluating learners
15 / Revision

Mode of teaching

-contact dialogue

-simulation

-use of authentic documents

-individual and group presentations

Mode of assessment

-Two course works : 30%

-Final examination : 70%

-Total : 100%

References:

1. F. Allouache, N. Blondeau and M.F Né- Published by CLE: Littérature Progressive du Français, Niveau débutant & Intermédiaire.

2. F. Allouache, N. Blondeau and M.F Né- Published by CLE : Littérature progressive de la Francophonie Niveau Intermédiaire.

3. Civilisation Progressive du Français By Ross Steele Published by CLE.

4. Civilisation Progressive de la Francophonie Niveau Intermédiaire By Jackson Noutchie Njiké Published by CLE.

5. Communication Progressive du Français Niveau Intermédiaire. By Claire Miquel Published by CLE.