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| Volume 74, No. 6
Dedicated to the Interests of Teachers of French |
May, 2001 |
| 1089 From the Editor's Desk | ||
ARTICLES | ||
1092 |
Sally Sieloff Magnan and François V. Tochon "Reconsidering French Pedagogy: The Crucial Role of the Teacher and Teaching" |
At the turn of the millennium, we pause to reconsider the question "Why Study French?" along with the question "What does it mean to teach French?". This article reviews four rationales for French study: humanistic benefits, utilitarian arguments, intellectual and linguistic development, and pleasure. Although French students may identify attaining oral fluency as their top priority, teachers define this fluency through a sociocultural and humanistic, literate lens. Beliefs about acquisition are changing. Recent research questions the role of consciousness in input processing, emphasizes the effect of mediation, and highlights the importance of teacher thinking in adapting curricular contents to learning environments. The European field of Didactics, whose history goes back to Comenius (seventeenth century), offers insight into French pedagogy. To bring culture to the core of the curriculum and to revalorize the role of the teaching, why not enter the field of Didactics? |
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Gladys C. Lipton "The FLES* Advantage: FLES* Programs in the Third Millennium" |
The arguments in favor of an early start for the study of foreign languages (FLES*) are convincing and well-documented. This article explores the key research components for FLES* (pronounced "flestar"), provides an overview of some of the major contemporary issues, highlights FLES* and its important role in the third millennium and in the new K-12 trends and national foreign language standards, and describes the essential elements for outstanding FLES* programs. |
1125 |
Ann Marie Caldwell "A FLAC Model for Increasing Enrollment in Foreign Language Classes" |
This article describes a unique, team-taught course developed as part of an NEH-funded Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum pilot project. This course was conceived of as a trailer to a world literature course, but it was restructured so as to open it up to students from Novice to Advanced levels of proficiency on the ACTFL proficiency scale. The author deals with the innovations that were made in content and in pedagogy to accommodate students at these various levels of proficiency. It is the author's intention that this experiment will serve as a model for other instructors who want to make the presence of French, or any other foreign language that has experienced a decline in enrollment, more visible on their campus. |
1138 |
Elizabeth M Knutson "Fostering Student-Student Interaction in a Whole Group Setting" |
Second and foreign language instructors are understandably interested in maximizing students' opportunities to speak during classroom interaction, and research in second language acquisition has demonstrated the potential benefits of learner-learner interaction. While pair or small group work is the more obvious vehicle for increased student talk, classroom interaction in a whole group instructional setting can also be structured to optimize communicative speaking and listening among learners. This article examines the dynamics of traditional classroom discourse patterns and argues that it is important, both from the standpoint of language learning and from a social interactional perspective, to provide opportunities for more autonomous and communicative talk among students in whole group interaction. Suggestions are provided for instructional strategies and classroom activities which foster the development of learners' interactional competence and sense of communicative responsibility toward classmates. |
1152 |
Mark Ingram "Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the French Civilization Class" |
The French civilization course is uniquely situated to provide students with skills in social and cross-cultural analysis. This article describes how to draw on social science research in order to encourage this. It also discusses use of multimedia techniques for introducing French social science scholarship to undergraduates. Finally, it describes how I have drawn on my research on Fifth Republic cultural policy in preparing a Special Topics course. Throughout, I argue for the value of a critical, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach to teaching French civilization. |
1165 |
Steve J. Albert "Linguistic Anthropology and the Study of Contemporary France" |
Linguistic anthropology approaches language as a culturally embedded phenomenon, examining the linkages between linguistic practices, shared perceptions of languages and their speakers, and broader sociopolitical contexts. In this article I discuss how theoretical developments within this discipline can be of interest to students of French civilization and culture. Specifically, I seek to demonstrate how the discursive practices in evidence during a recent debate over language policy can be analyzed in order to shed light on the ideological construction of the French nation-state; on concerns regarding the "globalization" of mass culture; and on current debates regarding the nature of contemporary French society. |
1176 |
Daniel Lepetit "Subjonctif: descriptions et manuels" |
L'enseignement du subjonctif place bon nombre d'enseignants dans une situation inconfortable car les descriptions qui en sont proposées sont incomplètes et controversées. Comment, alors, enseigne-t-on le subjonctif? Après avoir établi une synthèse de la littérature relative au subjonctif, le traitement qui lui est réservé dans deux manuels représentatifs de l'enseignement du français qui s'adressent aux étudiants débutants des Collèges américains est analysé. |
1193 |
Joel Walz "Critical Reading and the Internet" |
Critical reading, which involves analyzing a text to find hidden meanings and poor argumentation, has become increasingly important with the rise of the Internet. French teachers can choose sites and design activities that will help students find deeper meanings in Web texts. The approach proposed in this article concentrates on an analysis of context through URLs and domain names, a study of vocabulary from a global approach, and an examination of the content of texts looking primarily for manipulation, bias, and logical argumentation. |
1206 |
Edwina Spodark "Integrating Online Techniques into Undergraduate French Language Instruction" |
The students who are coming to our classes today have grown up in a digital universe. They have high technological expectations of their French classes and teachers. Although French courses taught exclusively via distance learning may work on advanced levels for professional development, in the majority of undergraduate language courses only a thoughtful integration of distance learning techniques, judiciously selected and implemented by knowledgeable teachers, will accomplish the pedagogical goals that promote overall successful language learning for the largest number of students. This essay describes the uses of online techniques that were incorporated into an undergraduate Advanced French Grammar course. |
1218 |
Annette Sampon-Nicolas "Pour la nature: le cours de littérature prend l'air" |
Depuis quelques années, nous déplorons le nombre déclinant d'étudiants dans nos cours de littérature. En décloisonnant les disciplines et en transformant l'approche du cours, nous rendrons aux étudiants la passion pour la littérature. Un cours de français qui s'inspire de la nature, tout en ouvrant la possibilité d'exploration de la nature dans d'autres domaines, est un moyen d'attirer les étudiants et de renouveler notre curriculum. Il s'agit d'un cours à trois volets: la nature dans la littérature, les problèmes de l'environnement, et l'expression personnelle sur la nature. |
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1229 Colette Dio: "La Vie des mots" |
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REVIEWS |
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LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM |
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| 1234 | Liddell, Janice, and Yakina Belinda Kemp, eds., Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (Elizabeth Locey); | |
| 1235 | Dolezel, Lubomír, Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (Roland A. Champagne); | |
| 1236 | Rosenthal, Olivia, Donner à voir: écritures de l'image dans l'art de poésie au XVIe siècle (Jerry C. Nash); | |
| 1237 | Smith, Malcolm, Renaissance Studies: Articles 1966-1994 (Barbara C. Bowen); | |
| 1238 | Langer, Ullrich, Vertu du discours, discours de la vertu: littérature et philosophie morale au XVIe siècle en France (Barbara C. Bowen); | |
| 1239 | La Bruyère, Jean de, Les Caractères (Edmund J. Campion); | |
| 1240 | Schröder, Volker, La Tragédie du sang d'Auguste: politique et intertextualité dans Britannicus; Dandrey, Patrick, Phèdre de Jean Racine: genèse et tissure d'un rets admirable (Marie-Odile Sweetser); | |
| 1242 | Bargues-Rollins, Yvonne, Le Pas de Flaubert: une danse macabre (Hope Christiansen); | |
| 1243 | Fauvel, Daniel, and Yvan Leclerc, éds., Salammbô de Flaubert: histoire, fiction (Richard L. Sterling); | |
| 1244 | Noland, Carrie, Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology (Susan F. Crampton); | |
| 1245 | Fisher, Dominique D., and Lawrence Schehr, eds., Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French (Nancy Lane); | |
| 1246 | Thurman, Judith, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Melanie Hawthorne); | |
| 1248 | Colvile, Georgiana M. M. et Katharine Conley, éds., La Femme s'entête: la part du féminin dans le surréalisme (Liliane Lazar); | |
| 1249 | Loselle, Andrea, History's Double: Cultural Tourism in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Dorothy M. Betz); | |
| 1250 | Kaplan, Alice, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (Adele King); | |
| 1251 | Gay-Crosier, Raymond, Albert Camus: paradigmes de l'ironie-révolte et négation affirmative (Maurice Wyembergh); | |
| 1252 | Fortier, Anne-Marie, René Char et la métaphore Rimbaud: la lecture à l'¦uvre (Susan F. Crampton); | |
| 1253 | Cousseau, Anne, Poétique de l'enfance chez Marguerite Duras (Agnes Porter Beaudry); | |
| 1254 | Michel, Chantal, Maurice Blanchot et le déplacement d'Orphée (Roland A. Champagne); | |
| 1255 | Baetens, Jan, Etudes camusiennes (Michel Sirvent). | |
FILM |
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1256 |
A toute vitesse (Denis M. Provencher); |
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| 1258 | La Petite Fille qui vendait le soleil (Susan Gasster). | |
SOCIETY AND CULTURE |
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| 1259 | Zimmerman, Margarete, and Roswitha Böhm, eds., Französische Frauen der Frühen Neuzeit: Dichterinnen, Malerinnen, Mäzeninnen (Susanne Rossbach); | |
1260 |
Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa, Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror (Adelia V. Williams); |
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| 1261 | Carpenter, Kirsty, Refugees of the French Revolution: Emigrés in London, 1789-1802 (Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood); | |
| 1263 | Baynac, Jacques, Les Secrets de l'affaire Jean Moulin; Cordier, Daniel, Jean Moulin: la République des catacombes; Péan, Pierre, Vies et morts de Jean Moulin (Homer B. Sutton); | |
| 1264 | Menon, Anand, France, NATO, and the Limits of Independence, 1987-97: The Politics of Ambivalence (Jacques M. Laroche); | |
| 1265 | Zetlaoui, Jodelle, L'Université et ses métiers: contribution à l'analyse des espaces de travail (André J. M. Prévos); | |
| 1266 | Cook, Malcolm, and Grace Davie, eds., Modern France: Society in Transition (Alice J. Strange); | |
| 1267 | Rochefort, Harriet Welty, French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French (Catherine Daniélou); | |
| 1269 | Saka, Pierre et Yann Plougastel, La Chanson française et francophone (Kathryne M. Bulver); | |
| 1270 | L'Année francophone internationale: an 2000 (Samia I. Spencer). | |
CREATIVE WORKS |
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| 1271 | Alferi, Pierre, Le Cinéma des familles (James P. Gilroy); | |
| 1272 | Belletto, René, Créature (Monique F. Nagem); | |
| 1273 | Berger, Yves, Santa Fé (Michel Gueldry); | |
| 1274 | Bober, Robert, Berg et Beck (Michael Kline); | |
| 1275 | Duchâtel, Eric et Philippe Postel, Pandore et l'ouvre-boîte (Ritt Deitz); | |
| 1276 | Ernaux, Annie, L'Evénement et La Vie extérieure: 1993-1999 (Mark D. Lee); | |
| 1278 | Giraud, Brigitte, Nico (Annie Jouan-Westlund); | |
| 1279 | Gnaedig, Alain, Opus incertum (Kirstin Kirkham); | |
| 1280 | Grainville, Patrick, Le Jour de la fin du monde, une femme me cache (Susan Petit); | |
| 1281 | Izzo, Jean-Claude, Le Soleil des mourants (Tom Conner); | |
| 1282 | Modiano, Patrick, Des Inconnus (E. Nicole Meyer); | |
| 1283 | Réda, Jacques, La Course: nouvelles poésies itinérantes et familières (1993-1998) (Tobin H. Jones); | |
| 1284 | Reza, Yasmina, Une Désolation (Véronique Anover); | |
1285 |
Sijie, Dai, Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Nathalie Cornelius); |
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| 1286 | Taillandier, François, Anielka (Lydie Moudileno); | |
| 1287 | Toussaint, Jean-Philippe, Autoportrait (à l'étranger) (Jean-Louis Hippolyte); | |
| 1288 | Vigourt, Catherine, La Maison de l'Américain (Davida Brautman); | |
| 1289 | Wiesel, Elie, Les Juges (Jack Kolbert). | |
LINGUISTICS |
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| 1290 | Auzanneau, Michelle, La Parole vive du Poitou: une étude sociolinguistique en milieu rural (Joseph E. Price); | |
| 1291 | Lafage, Suzanne et Ambroise queffélec, éds., Le Français en Afrique: Revue du Réseau des Observations du Français Contemporain en Afrique 13 (Pascal D. Kokora); | |
| 1292 | Revol, Thierry, Introduction à l'ancien français (Diana L. Ranson). | |
COURSE MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY |
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| 1294 | Cherry, C. Maurice, ed., New Directions: DIMENSION 2000 (Roger Noël); | |
| 1295 | Jacobsen-Brown, Jane, et al., Vive le français! Learning System A and Learning System B (Lena L. Lucietto); | |
| 1296 | Les Cultures des Pays Francophones de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: A Resource Manual and CD-ROM for Teachers of French (Davara Potel). | |
1299 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT |
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| 1300 | LIST OF EDITORS | |
| 1301 | GUIDE FOR AUTHORS | |
| 1303 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
1305 AATF | ||
| 1306 | INFORMATION PAGE | |
| 1307 | OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION | |
| 1309 | CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE AATF | |
| 1316 | MOTIONS PASSED AT THE PARIS CONVENTION, JULY 2000 | |
| 1328 | FINANCIAL REPORT | |
| 1340 | REGIONS AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES | |
| 1340 | MEMBERSHIP AND SUBSCRIPTION FORM | |
| 1341 | CHANGE OF ADDRESS PAGE | |
| 1342 | ROSTER OF CHAPTER PRESIDENTS | |
| 1343 | NATIONAL FRENCH CONTEST ADMINISTRATORS | |
1345 INDEX |
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1079 ADVERTISING |
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