Description
What kinds of spoken French do we find in contemporary song and screen culture? What can the broad range of language varieties evidenced in songs and on screen contribute to the teaching of French?This online conference with Dr David Evans and Dr Pauline Souleau (University of St Andrews) aims to discuss the value of harnessing oral French and new forms of media in the classroom, and how they can help us to reconsider the place of non-standard forms in language teaching and learning, to design new forms of assessment, and to develop students’ transferable skills.
This reflection is born out of two final-year modules taught at the University of St Andrews since 2023: Francophone Vocal Cultures: Song and Identity and Francophone Screen Cultures: Shaping French Identities. These modules, and more generally classes making use of these forms of media, have the scope to harness the immense potential of AV material, displaying many kinds of language use, register, accent or dialect, for our students’ language learning. Such an approach reflects the actual viewing and listening habits of our current generation of students and can help to consolidate and diversify their knowledge of cultures across the French-speaking world. Although the speakers’ experience is in Higher Education, the workshop is open to any language educator with an interest in incorporating audio-visual material and new forms of media in class.
This online conference is organized as part of the Mois de la Francophonie 2025
| Period | 11 Mar 2025 |
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| Event title | Teaching francophone audiovisual cultures: What can songs and screens teach language educators and students? |
| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |