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Marvelous Liaisons (Les liaisons merveilleuses)

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Marvelous Liaisons (Les liaisons merveilleuses)

 

Primary Presenter: Patricia Mosele

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Role: Lecturer 

Track: Research Presentation

Level: For Mere Mortals

 

Abstract: The question: How do you take a dry, complex, and difficult topic from French phonetics and make it meaningful and motivating for college students who just want to speak French, travel the Francophone world, expand their world views, and interact in new cultures?  My response:  Use technology creatively to give students a virtual immersion experience outside the classroom, provide a solid pedagogical foundation that builds linguistic and cultural skills, and use the classroom for cross-cultural communicative interaction. Voilà!

 

Bio: Pat Mosele specializes in Applied French Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology, and Second Language Acquisition.  She holds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from Indiana University where she wrote her dissertation on classroom students’ acquisition of French phonology. Dr. Mosele has been teaching French language and linguistics at CU on and off for the past 14 years.  She is now completing an M.A. in Instructional Technology at the University of Colorado-Denver.  She first began working on integrating electronic technology with language learning pedagogical principles as a graduate student at IU and is now completing a design project to improve students’ learning of French pronunciation.

 

Description: In the “Marvelous Liaisons” session, I will demonstrate how creatively “flipping” some course content from the classroom face-to-face environment to an electronic environment used outside of class can make learning even a seemingly esoteric topic like French liaison more motivational and meaningful for students.  For my pilot project, I have designed a new language learning experience using a Constructionist philosophy that views students as active learners who acquire language by extracting linguistic knowledge from the cultural context in which it is used and by performing authentic speech acts in simulated natural situations.  Project design is based on four main objectives: (1) Facilitation of learners’ comprehension of liaison based on spoken French used in authentic video conversations; (2) Expansion of learners’ ability to analyze speech samples based on a corpus of phonetic rules for French liaison; (3) Advancement of learners’ ability to use the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe French phrases so as to amplify linguistic comprehension; and, (4) Development of learners’ ability to apply linguistic knowledge about liaison to their own speech in simulated natural conversational activities in the classroom.  Attendees will have an opportunity to view my educational web site unit on French liaison, “Liaisons merveilleuses,” the accompanying course Guide, and sample classroom conversational activities so as to better understand how these materials work together to create a simulated immersion experience.   In my presentation, I will show that by the creative and thoughtful use of technology we are able not only to teach the same content as in a traditional classroom, but at the same time, to develop numerous other essential competencies, including students’ analytical, critical thinking, cross-cultural, conversational, and sociolinguistic skills.  I will conclude by examining with participants how a similar approach to lesson design can be applied to enriching learning in other disciplines.

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