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Study programmes 2013-2014Last update : 13/05/2014
PEDA0070-2  Learning and teaching French in primary and lower secondary schools

Duration :  45h Th
Number of credits :  
Master in Education, Professional Focus in teaching, 1st year5
Master in Education, Professional Focus in Adult Education, 1st year5
Lecturer :  Patricia Schillings
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
All year long
Course contents :  
This course is focussed on the mecanims that ensure the scaffolding, the control and the adjustment of the learning settings related to French. Six themes are developped :
  • early literacy learning;
  • reading exertise;
  • didactic models of writing;
  • the language as a tool to conceptualize and to learn;
  • the language as a tool to communicate and acculturate one self;
  • the steering and the regulation of the learnings in French.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze the professional skills which determine the effectiveness of the studied learning settings. More specifically, they will be able to :
  • to understand the pupils's difficulties in the area of literacy;
  • to consider learning in a developmental perspective;
  • to develop the ability to bring a new perspective to various learning settings;
  • to design and regulate some learning settings which ensure the development of the targeted skills;
  • to assess/ to comprehend the learning constructed in the different learning settings;
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
It is recommended to attend "Analyse critique des courants psychopédagogiques" (Marcel CRAHAY) and " Analyse des processus d'enseignement "(Dominique LAFONTAINE)before or during the same academic year .
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
The methodology combines theoretical presentations , analysis of students' productions and analysis of teaching/learning settings.
The course includes two types of assignement : on the one hand, the reading of a reading folder, and on the other hand, the experiment of a teaching /learning activity and the drafting of a report.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Recommended or required readings :  
A reading folder related to the different themes developped in the course wil be made available for students starting from the first class meeting (October 19th).
Some additionnal texts could also be made available to deepen some of the topics.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Examen écrit. Le rapport relatif à l'expérimentation de l'activité (cf.supra) interviendra pour 20% de la note globale. Son absence ou la non présentation de l'examen entraînera une note de "0" pour le cours.
Work placement(s) :  
The sudents who attend the module "Formation pédagogique approfondie pour l'enseignement fondamental et secondaire inférieur"must complete the part 1 of the internship related to the module during the same academic year that they attend the courses "enseignement/apprentissage des mathématiques et du français."
For more information , see the internship educational commitments YSTG9010-1.
Organizational remarks :  
The course is organized in 15 face to face modules of 3 hours each . Six modules will be organized on Saturday morning from 9 to 12 ( October 19th , November 16th , November 30th , Décember 14th, March 29th, April 26th) and nine during school holidays (October 28th, October 29th, October 30th , March 5th , March 6th , March 7th , April 7th , April 8th and April 9th).
Contacts :  
Patricia Schillings - Patricia.schillings@ulg.ac.be
Since I don't have any assistant devoted to this course, I would be grateful if you could only contact me by courriel, and give me a few days to answer your questions .


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