Study Programmes 2016-2017
FLES0010-2  
Problems faced by Immigrants who learn French as a Second Language (CEFLES)
Duration :
10h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits :
University certificate for teaching French as a foreign language or second language3
Lecturer :
Jean-Marc Defays, Deborah Meunier
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents :
The course first of all presents the different aspects: sociological, academic, cultural and linguistic, of the experience and the profile of these immigrant learners, which determines their learning of the French language.
The course then deals with the general principles of conditions experienced by immigrants, as a variety of concrete situations that immigrants (and their children) must confront, either before or after arriving in their host country.
Finally, the course prepares participants to teach French to different types of immigrant communities, with the particular aim of facilitating their social integration. The questions considered include the objectives to be defined, the methods to utilize and the types of interaction to develop in the classroom in relation to the outside world.
The students will be accompanied in the creation of teaching-learning activities FSL to an immigrant public. These productions will be evaluated, and the terms will be specified at the beginning of the course.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
To enable participants to analyse those situations peculiar to immigrant learners and to adapt accordingly their teaching of French as a foreign and second language, thus rendering their teaching more pertinent and efficient.
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:


  • master and adequately use the terminology and concepts relating to immigration and to the teaching FSL
  • identify and relativize stereotypes
  • develop activities according to the pedagogy of the project, and an action-oriented and intercultural approach
  • use and evaluate the relevance of repositories of skills and training tools, including evaluation, specific to an immigrant public
  • define learning objectives according to the public
  • distinguish profiles and teaching-learning situations FFL, FSL, and alpha- FFL
  • develop critical thinking on institutional reception facilities for newcomers and integration policy.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
The mode of teaching to be interactive. The students meet with professionals and immigration experts, will work in groups and will be sought throughout the course to react to readings, meetings, experiences made in the course or outside.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Second semester on Wenesday from 14:00 to 16:00. S100 
Recommended or required readings :
Various bibliographic documents and references are communicated to the participants throughout the course.
Assessment methods and criteria :
The students will be accompanied in the creation of teaching-learning activities FSL to an immigrant public. These productions will be evaluated, and the terms will be specified at the beginning of the course.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Deborah Meunier
 
Université de Liège
Service de didactique du FLES - ISLV
Place du 20-Août, 7
B-4000 Liège
Email : dmeunier@ulg.ac.be(jmdefays@ulg.ac.be )
Tél. : 04 366 53 57