Teaching French as a foreign and second language (Part II)

Duration

Teaching internships in Belgium or abroad : 20h Internship
Reflective practices : 4h Pr
Extracurricular school practice : 10h AUTR

Number of credits

Lecturer

Teaching internships in Belgium or abroad : Jean-Marc Defays, Deborah Meunier
Reflective practices : Jean-Marc Defays, Deborah Meunier
Extracurricular school practice : Jean-Marc Defays, Deborah Meunier

Coordinator

Deborah Meunier

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The observation internship take place throughout the year in classes of French as a foreign language (or alpha-FLE). These observations are the subject of a brief written report by the trainee and discussed during reflective practice sessions.
The teaching periods take place in classes of French as a foreign language, second or alpha-FLE, mostly in secondary education in Belgium. Some practical hours can be realized in other contexts (asbl, social promotion, university, abroad...). These internships are the subject of a brief written report, of various exchanges with the supervisors, the members of the teaching department of the FLE, and the other trainees.
  The reflective practice sessions consist of analyzing the observations of classes and the teaching stages in order to develop a critical view on the practices of class.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students will learn :

• to develop professional knowledge in order to improve their own practice.
• Develop an accurate critical view of teaching practices associated with French as a foreign/second 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.)
• Use the tools offered in Special Didactics courses
• Analyze practices and propose improvements / alternatives.

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 secondary school and at ISLV, and will be invited to discuss their observations at a meeting with other interns and the members of the Didactic Service for French as a foreign language.
Each practical course will include at least 3 hours of observation of the supervisor and the class in which the trainee will teach. These must imperatively take place before the teaching practices so that the trainee can adapt his preparations to the learners and to the particular context of the course.
The trainee will use the observation grid provided by the FLE Teaching Department (eCampus) and attach it to his training report.
These observation sessions will be exploited during reflective practice seminars.
After observing their supervisor and the class in which they will teach, the trainees must prepare lesson plans, in collaboration with their supervisor to whom they will submit their preparations at least 3 days before beginning to teach. The first preparations may also be submitted to a pedagogical instructor to assist in the development of the pedagogical sequences.
Each training course will consist of at least 12 hours of teachings in the presence of the supervisor, who will be responsible for evaluating the lessons learned and the trainee using the evaluation grid provided by the FLE Teaching Department.
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.
The reflective practice sessions consist of analyzing the observations of classes and the teaching stages in order to develop a critical view on the practices of class.
Trainees must actively participate in exchanges and attendance at sessions is mandatory.
The trainee must carry out a training course of 10 hours outside the strict context of the class. It chooses a project or activities (observation or actual practice) according to its professional project and the context of the internship (to accompany a trainer, a pedagogical coordinator or a social worker in his daily activities, to help in the creation of a project in an association - expo, excursion, ... -, accompany the director of a closed center, attend / participate in a course of citizenship, ...).
The project must be approved by the service before the beginning of the training course. The trainee should complete the document available on eCampus where he will explain the internship project, the modalities and the framework it will benefit to carry it out. The trainee will write a two-page report at the end of the internship.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

The trainee must choose the place of internship from the list proposed by the special didactic service. He must carry out at least two internship in Belgium throughout his training, and diversify the types of establishments and publics in order to benefit from a rich and varied experience.
If the intern is already teaching, his 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 at that workplace.
Participation in reflective practice sessions is mandatory.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

If the health situation no longer allows the organization of face-to-face internships in classrooms, teaching practices can be carried out remotely, if the internship location allows it. In addition, "educational workshops" (simulated lessons) and "reflective practice" sessions will be organized by the teaching service in the second semester (face-to-face or online, depending on the evolution of the health situation).
People who have difficulties in following videoconference courses (no computer, no correct internet connection, no workspace at their home, etc.) are invited to report it as soon as possible.

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam

- Remote

written exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

The trainee completes the observation grid for each internship and appends it to his internship report. These observation 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 a member of the FLE teaching department and by a self-assessment by the trainee.
The final mark obtained for each internship is an average of the marks awarded by the trainee, the member of the didactic department who visited the trainee, and the score resulting from the evaluation of the reports.
The reflexive practices 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.
The trainee will write a two-page report at the end of the internship "hors cours".
These practices are not the subject of a quantified evaluation but of a "YES / NO" in the final evaluation grid. The "NO" leading to the adjournment.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Information meeting on October 7th at 3 pm at Salle Wittert.
All documents related to the internships will be downloaded or deposited on eCampus.
The trainee will have to encode all the information about his place of internship (dates, trainee, schedules, contact details etc.) via the online forms (CIFEN and FLE Teaching Department).
The following deadlines:
Stage 1: October 31, 2020
Stage 2: December 15, 2020
Stage 3: February 15, 2021
Trainees must submit the completed CIFEN "internship authorization" documents to Sylvie Romancide (sromancide@uliege.be) at least one week before the start of the internship.
Participation in reflective practice sessions is mandatory.
No 2nd session organized.

Contacts

Prof. Jean-Marc DEFAYS jmdefays@uliege.be 
Prof. Deborah MEUNIER dmeunier@uliege.be 
Université de Liège Place du 20-Août, 7, Bat. A2, 4/47 B-4000 Liège
+32 (0)4 366 55 17