An investigation of pedagogical approaches and methods used in a French university French-as-a-foreign-language program: teacher and student perspectives

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dc.contributor.authorBlackstone, Pam
dc.contributor.supervisorHuang, Li-Shih
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-01T19:31:05Z
dc.date.available2019-10-01T19:31:05Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-10-01
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Linguistics
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis qualitative study has investigated a month-long French-as-a-foreign-language summer program. Its goal was to compare teacher (n=4) and student (n=6) perspectives regarding learning objectives, challenges, and preferred teaching/learning approaches and methods, and to evaluate results against Whyte (2011), who argued that a schism in French university language teaching leads to the dominance of explicit (traditional teacher-fronted) instruction at the expense of more communicative teaching approaches. Data collection took place via classroom observations, pre-course interviews and surveys, a post-course teacher focus group, and weekly student reflective logs. A total of 2,211 references were coded to 276 thematic nodes. Results suggest that the teachers involved primarily embrace a traditional classroom dynamic but apply strategies associated with multiple methods, providing evidence for use of what has become known as the Eclectic Method. Some alignment was found between teachers and students concerning goals, challenges, and teaching approaches, and mixed support was obtained for Whyte’s claim regarding a deficit of communicative language teaching, in that both explicit and implicit teaching were observed.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11206
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectFrenchen_US
dc.subjectL2 Frenchen_US
dc.subjectFrench as a Second Languageen_US
dc.subjectLanguage Teachingen_US
dc.subjectFrench Language Teachingen_US
dc.subjectLanguage Teaching Approaches and Methodsen_US
dc.subjectFrench university foreign language teachingen_US
dc.titleAn investigation of pedagogical approaches and methods used in a French university French-as-a-foreign-language program: teacher and student perspectivesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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