2004 Entries and Abstracts: Teaching With Technology
Karen Kelton,
Carl Blyth, and Nancy Guilloteau
Franch and Italian, FR 506, 507, 508K
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/
Francais Interactif
Français Interactif is a unique first-year French curriculum
designed to complement UT's new smart classrooms. With digital video technology,
our students explore French language and culture by following the lives
of real UT students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in
Lyon, France. UT students introduce their French host families, their
French university, and their lives in France.
The program contains a wealth of cultural information: videos of native
French speakers, as well as scenes of day-to-day interactions (vendors
in the market, waiters at a café, children celebrating birthdays,
etc.). Français Interactif emphasizes interaction and
communication: student/teacher, student/student, student/computer, student/native-speaker.
The goal of Français Interactif is in its title: interaction
in French.
- Features of Français Interactif:
- 320 videos : UT students in France, native French interviews, vocabulary and culture presentations (.mp4, .mov)
- Recorded vocabulary lists (.mp3, CD audio)
- Phonetic lessons with recorded examples (.mp3)
- Online grammar (600 pages) with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues (3 hrs, .mp3)
- Online grammar tools (verb conjugation reference, verb practice)
- Diagnostic grammar tests (testez-vous)
- Workbook of classroom activities and homework assignments (13 chapters, 575 pages, .pdf format)
- Online comparative polls and Internet writing activities