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    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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    EDUC 378-4 ?
    Developing Skills for Learning & Teaching French
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    Summer session 2004
    Location: TBA ?
    Instructor: Amin Saad
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    Email: asaad(sfu.ca
    PREREQUISITE
    Education 401/402. Instruction given in English and French.
    This course on Core French in designed especially for students participating in the French
    language/culture immersion program at Laval University in Quebec.
    COURSE OUTLINE
    Premièrement, bienvenue au cours! This course is intended for student teachers who wish to
    examine, acquire and/or improve the development of their own written and oral proficiency in the
    French as well the literacy of second language learners in their classroom. During a five week
    stay in Quebec, participants will be engaged in a program that will concentrate on improving
    communications skills, both oral and written. Participants will be also involved in activities to
    promote French culture and communication. Classes in second language methodology will tie in
    their own learning to the teaching of students in elementary and secondary classrooms in British
    Colombia.
    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;
    • The impact of teaching French as a second language in a multicultural classroom.
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
    Personal journal & collection of authentic material- 40%
    Website or Lesson plans
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    Survey - 40%
    Participation - 20%

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