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What Do Pupils Learn from Bilingual Interventions of Civic Education in Foreign Language Classes? The Impact of Bilingual Interventions of Civic Education about the French Presidential Election 2022 on Pupils' Political Dispositions and Intercultural Competence.
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Thomas Waldvogel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
What do pupils learn from bilingual interventions of civic education? This paper addresses this question by analyzing survey responses of 301 pupils who participated in a bilingual role-play about a televised debate on the 2022 French presidential election in French foreign language classes. The study shows, first, that the intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Student Attitudes, Bilingual Education
Understanding Collaborative Language Learning in Novice-Level Foreign Language Classrooms: Perceptions of Teachers and Students
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Sun, Peijian; Yuan, Rui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This study explored the congruence and disparities among three groups of foreign language (Chinese, French, and German) students' and teachers' perceptions of collaborative/cooperative language learning (CLL) strategies in novice-level classroom contexts. A total of 168 participants from a university in the USA took part in this mixed-method…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mixed Methods Research
Multi-Storied Lives: Global Simulation as an Approach to Developing Multiliteracies in an Intermediate French Course
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Michelson, Kristen; Dupuy, Beatrice – L2 Journal, 2014
Recent scholarship has proposed a pedagogy of multiliteracies to frame FL curricula and instruction, and encourage critical reflection about language use through a variety of discourses and textual genres. One pedagogical framework conducive to fostering learners' intersemiotic awareness is Global Simulation (GS). GS consists in the creation of a…
Descriptors: Multiliteracies, Second Language Instruction, French, Simulation
Le jeu de role: Reperes pour une pratique. (Role Playing: Guidelines for Implementation.)
Dufeu, Bernard – Francais dans le Monde, 1983
Role playing has as advantages that it involves the whole individual, brings language alive, permits expression beyond simple reproduction of language, takes the focus off the teacher, and creates spontaneity. Possible difficulties stem from teacher unwillingness, inappropriate uses, different degrees of student involvement, and technical…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, French, Holistic Approach
The Use of Spontaneous Dialogues in the Business Language Course.
Stock, Janet C. – 1990
Dialogues, or role-playing, are useful in second language instruction because they increase student motivation to learn the language, enhance self-esteem by showing students they can express themselves in realistic communicative activities, and inhibit students less than non-simulated situations. In one teacher's approach, students have no…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Dialogs (Language), French, Higher Education
Oral Classroom Testing in an Adult French Community Class.
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Davies, Sheena; And Others – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997
This study investigated the utility and feasibility of administering achievement tests to adults in a continuing education course in French, in Scotland, in which student progress is not usually formal assessed. Subjects were 18 adults in elementary-level classes, aged 18 to over 60 years. Students were tested three times, at 3-4 week intervals,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Education, Conversational Language Courses, Foreign Countries