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EDUCATION 480-4

DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: FRENCH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

Summer Session

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Instructor: Dial Lewis

July 4 to August 11

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Tel & Fax: (H) 738-2377

Wednesday and Friday: 8:30am - 12:20pm

Frequency: 6 week sessions

Location: SFU, room #7600F (MPX)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course aims at demystifying second language instruction by examining the links and

differences between first and second language acquisition. Second language education has drawn

on knowledge about the first language learning to trace a picture of second language development.

Recent work in this area highlights the similar focus on making meaning during the acquisition

processes across languages. Yet, there remain differences in the surface features of each linguistic

system and in the cultural practices surrounding language use. Moreover, the status of the first and

second language can vary according to social and educational contexts. This naturally has an

impact on the particular type of classroom support needed to foster growth in a given language.

Through a variety of large group, small cooperative groups and individual activities, we will

explore our own processes as second language learners and work with a number of classroom

approaches which can be applied to teaching French as a second language. Current Ministry

documents, curriculum practices, and teaching materials related to the second language classroom

will also be examined.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS

(a)

Second Language Acquisition (based on current research)

(b)

Role of the First Language in Second language Learning

(c)

The use of Contextual Clues for Comprehension

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Strategies for Teaching in the Second Language Classroom

- communicative approach

- cooperative learning techniques

- modeling

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Analysis of the Integrative Approach

- other subject integration (i.e. Music, Social Studies, Phys Ed., etc.)

- experiential learning

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Practical Classroom Applications

- getting started

- keeping student interest and motivation

- teaching grammar and vocabulary in context

(g) Curriculum concerns

- specific objectives

- classroom interaction

- use of authentic sources for cultural context

- evaluation of the 4 areas of second language acquisition

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS

• Term project and presentation . 30%

• Portfolio of resources and materials.......................20%

• Analysis and evaluation of didactic material ..............20%

• Journal: reading and presentation.........................30%

- curriculum overview

- language acquisition

- teaching strategies and approaches

REQUIRED TEXT

Rivers, W. (1987). Interactive language teaching. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press.

Please bring a copy of the Didactic material used in your class: Core French Curriculum Guide 1994.

RECOMMENDED READING

Duplantie, M. (1989). La notion d'authencité dans les pratiques communicatives. Dans A.-

M. Boucher, M. Duplantie, R. Leblanc (Eds.). Propos sur la pédagogie de la

communication en langues secondes

(pp.

95-105). Montréal, CEC et CEPCEL.

Enns-Connolly, E. (1990). Second Language Curriculum Development as Dialectic

Process. Canadian Modern Language Review, 46,

500-5

13.

Germain, C. (1993). Evolution de l'enseignement des langues : 5000 ans d'histoire. Paris:

CLE International.

Germain, C. (1993). Le point sur l'approche communicative en didacti

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ue des langues.

Montréal : Centre éducatif et culturel.

Hakuta, K. (1986). Mirror of language. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Leblanc, R. (1990). Le curriculum multidimensionnel : une synthèse. Revue canadienne de

langues modernes, 47, 32-42.

Ministry of Education. (1992). The Curriculum/Assessment Framework for French as a

Second Language. Victoria, B.C.: Queen's Press.

Nunan, D. (1991). Language teaching methodolog

y

. Englewood, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Porquier, R. & Wagner, E. (1984). Etudier les apprentissages pour apprendre a enseigner

Le Français dans le monde. 185, 84-92.

Poyen, J. (1990). The National Core French Study: A national curriculum project. Revue

canadienne de langues modernes, 47, 20-31.

Richards, J. & Rodgers, T. (1986). Approaches and methods in language teaching.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Savignon, S. (1991). Communicative Language Teaching: State of the art. TESOL

Quarterly, 25 (2), 261-274.

Skehan, P. (1989). Individual Differences in Second Language Learning. London, UK:

Routledge.

Snow, M., Met., M., Genesee, F. (1989). A conceptual framework for the integration of language

and content in second/foreign language instruction. TESOL Quarterly, 2 3, 201-217.

Stern, H.H. (1992). Issues and options in language teaching. Oxford, UK: Oxford

University Press.