Teaching French to a young immigrant population

Teacher(s)

Bibauw Serge;

Language

French

Prerequisites

C1 level in French (Common European Framework of Reference)

Main themes

The following topics will be covered:

• the impact of linguistic and cultural factors on academic success;
  
• special linguistic and cultural characteristics of immigrant pupils, in relation to learning spoken and written French, and more generally, to French as a language of tuition;
  
• treatment of linguistic and cultural diversity at various levels of educational institutions.
  

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of the course, the students will be able: to analyse the linguistic and cultural situation of young immigrants and understand the most current errors made by these pupils in the light of their language/culture of origin; to consider possible transfers of tools of French as a foreign or second language (FLES); to devise teaching methods for teaching in a multicultural context.

Content

During the course, the following will be presented, in a critical way and with the aim of helping students to devise personal teaching methods:
- the results of various research studies relating to the special linguistic and cultural characteristics of immigrant pupils ;
- measures designed to take account of linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching ;
- the institutional policies in force in the French Community.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Evaluation methods

1. Written report and oral defense of this report (70%).
2. Reading assignments (20%) and collaborative annotation of reading material on the Perusall platform, before each session. This assessment is automated by the platform.
3. Class participation (10%) is evaluated formatively (i.e. not assessing the quality of participation but encouraging its occurrence), encouraging questions, interventions, and comments, as well as active participation in group discussions and exercises.

Other information

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Online resources

https://ucline.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=119

Bibliography

La liste bibliographique est disponible sur le site UCLine du cours.
A bibliographical list is available on the course website.

Teaching materials

• Les supports de cours se trouvent à la page https://ucline.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=119
• The course materials can be found at https://ucline.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=119

Faculty or entity

ELAL