SDN FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Session 1998
EDUC 378 -
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j. Desquins
ST-Developing Skills for Learning
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Office: MPX 9507
Teaching French for the Classroom
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Tel: 291-3251
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E-mail: desquins@sfu.ca
* For PDP Quebec Program Students
PREREQUISITE
Educ 401/402
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is intended for student teachers who wish to examine, acquire and/or improve the
development of their own written and oral proficiencies in French as well as the literacy of second
language learners in their classrooms. During a five week stay in Quebec, participants will be
engaged in a pi'ogram that will concentrate on improving communication skills, both oral and
written. Participants will also be involved in activities to promote French culture and
communication. Finally classes in second language methodology will tie in their own learning to
the teaching of students in elementary and secondary classrooms in British Columbia. Upon their
return, students will be asked to submit a portfolio of learning experiences and reflections to be
later implemented in the classroom.
OBJECTIVES
All activities and assignments are embedded in a communicative competence theory of language
acquisition and literacy as well as a socio-constructivist perspective of education. Students will
develop an understanding of a variety of pedagogical issues related to literacy development in
French first and second language classrooms through their own experience of language learning in
Quebec and the analysis of that experience for this course. They will develop an understanding of
the following:
• the role of the teacher and the learner in an experiential-communicative language classroom;
• the relationship between acquiring knowledge, skills and attitudes and the development of
literacy;
• the role of the teacher in the development of autonomous language learners;
• design a portfolio that will reflect an understanding of the various language learning styles and
provide multiple opportunities for language acquisition.
EVALUATION
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Attendance and participation in all sessions in Quebec.
2.
Journal reflections
3. Submission of a project /portfolio.
READINGS
A selection of materials will be provided on sight, at Laval University, as well as a series of articles
on second language acquisition. These articles will be mailed to students prior to their departure.