On site training : teaching French as a foreign language (part II)

Duration

30h Internship

Number of credits

Lecturer

Jean-Marc Defays, Deborah Meunier

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The pedagogical internship will involve various activities having to do with practices of observation applied to a class studying French as a foreign language (or as a second language, alpha language, etc.), paying attention to teaching in various contexts (non-profit organisations, secondary teaching, foreign universities, etc.), to different sorts of work done in cooperation with supervisors and fellow students, and to writing thoughtful and critical reports for the various internship programmes.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students will learn to :

• Develop an accurate critical view of teaching practices associated with French as a foreign language
• Produce adequate lesson plans that are appropriate for a given teaching situation
• Adapt themselves to differing teaching conditions (public, in different kinds of spaces, institutional constraints, etc.)

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Non-native French speakers must have achieved at least the C1 level in the French language in order to be admitted to internship programmes.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Initially interns must observe classes in French as a foreign language at the ILSV and will be invited to discuss their observations at a meeting with other interns and the directors of the Didactic Service for French as a foreign language.
The practical training period of 15h minimum will include more or less 1/3 having to do with observation by the internship supervisor, and the remaining 2/3 of the work will consist of teaching the class initially observed.
Lessons will be prepared with the assistance of the internship supervisor, who will have the task of helping with the lessons that are presented by the intern, and also of evaluating them.
The intern must write a brief reflexive report for each practicum and include the following documents: the observation grid the assessment grid of the supervisor the comments of the supervisor the self-assessment grid and the trainee's comments The documents to be filled in are available on eCampus and must be deposited in one single file.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The intern may choose the location where the work is to be performed, but at least one part of it must be performed in Belgium, and it is recommended that the types of public institutions be varied, in order for the work experience to be both rich and diverse.
If the intern is already teaching, his/ her current workplace can be acceptable as a location for internship work, provided that the student is being supervised by an internship director (fellow teacher, pedagogical director) and a member of the Didactics Service for French as a foreign language is able to visit the intern and observe him / her at that workplace.

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

The observation and reflexive sessions are mandatory. These sessions are not the subject of a quantified evaluation but of a "YES / NO" in the final evaluation grid. The "NO" leading to the adjournment.
Each training course is evaluated by the supervisor and by a self-assessment by the trainee. An individual meeting is organized in June with the members of the teaching department. Each student presents a lesson that has worked less well, a critical analysis of this lesson and its teaching practice, and proposes improvements. The final mark obtained for each internship is an average of the marks awarded by the supervisor and the members of the didactic department resulting from the evaluation of the presentation of the lesson at the end of the academic year.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Information meeting on October 4th at 10 am at the local Petit Physique. The trainee will have to encode all the information about his place of internship (dates, trainee, schedules, contact details etc.) via the online form (eCampus) at least one week before the start of the course. All documents related to the internships will be downloaded or deposited on eCampus.

Contacts

Dr. Deborah Meunier Maitre de conférences  Assistante
Département de Langues et Littératures romanes Service de didactique du français langue étrangère - ISLV 7, place du 20-août, Bât. A1 4000 Liège dmeunier@ulg.ac.be +32 4 366 53 57