French Didactics

Recommended Prerequisites

First degree with a minimum of 60 ECTS in French.
B1/2 level of French.

Teaching Methods

Expository methods will be used in the first classes which address theoretical topics. In the rest of the semester, classes will focus on more practical issues, and include various tasks to be carried out by students, such as reading and analyzing texts and materials, presenting short individual papers (exposés) orally, and drafting a lesson plan that focuses on one or several areas included in the guidelines for teaching French FL to 7th–12th year students.

Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to
–become acquainted with the main determining factors in the learning of French by Portuguese students, as well as with some of the past trends and main features of current methods for teaching it, as observed in teaching materials and official documents
–identify and describe techniques for teaching the four skills, as well as French vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation to Portuguese learners, and explain the adequacy of those techniques
–develop basic skills in lesson planning, and apply some of techniques learned in the preparation of a lesson plan that focuses on one or several areas included in the guidelines for teaching French FL to 7th–12th year students. In this context, they should also develop basic skills in research, analysis and production of teaching materials, as well as in the use of different didactic and technological resources
–become acquainted with principles for the management of time, space and content in the foreign language classroom

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Education, language, pedagogy, and learning French as a foreign language
2. Learning French FL: the role of Portuguese in the acquisition of French FL (transparency, metalinguistic consciousness); cross-cultural, multilingual approach.
3. French FL teaching methods (historical overview). CEFR and national curriculum guidelines.
4. The role of the teacher in the school and in the classroom; competences of the French FL teacher.
5. Learning profiles. Student motivation. Classroom management (interaction, time, blackboard).
6. Textbooks and other sources of material for teaching: examples of the use of oral and written texts in classroom, working with images and video; use of ICT in class.
7. Teaching the four skills, grammar and vocabulary in French FL.
8. Analysis of examples of lesson plan justifications, different lesson stages, lesson planning and definition of lesson aims.

Head Lecturer(s)

João da Costa Domingues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Research work: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

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