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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
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Instructor: Amin Saad
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Dates: TBA
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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%