The concept of competence in the French-language education literature

Prospects ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Ayotte-Beaudet
Author(s):  
Tengku Ratna Soraya ◽  
Zulherman ◽  
Nurilam Harianja ◽  
Hesti Fibriasari

This study aims to develop teaching materials in Production Ecrite Intermediare course to improve the writing ability the student of french departement at Faculty of Languages and Arts at One of State Universities in Northen Island of Indonesia by using SIPDA. This research was conducted to response the condition of covid pandemic situation that uses distance learning courses where students learn from their own homes. This research followed the R & D model proposed by Borg & Gall with the procedure analysing the student’s need, collecting the ressource of development, design the material, evaluatingexisting the materials based on the validation of experts judgement, field testing, revising, and finishing the final product. This research was carried out in the French Language Education Study Program FBS UNIMED by developing SIPDA-based teaching materials in lectures, to find out that these teaching materials can improve the writing skills of students of French Language Education Study Program at FBS Unimed. The results of this study show that SIPDA is very effective in helping students to improve the writing ability of French texts. This research recommends to the lecturers of French courses in general to using SIPDA in the teaching and learning process of writing in the classroom of Production Ecrite Intermediaire.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
W E Sekeh

 In French language, articles play an important role and one of the basic French skills is mastery of article usage. The objective of this study is to describe students’  performance and mastery of French articles. The research used descriptive research method. Data of the study were obtained by giving written tests of French language articles to French Language Education Program students enrolled in the 2018/2019 school year. The research instrument consisted of questions in the form of loose questions and questions in the form of text / short discourse. Data analysis used descriptive statistics analysis. Study result shows that students’ mastery of French article is quite low (Mean=48.28). However, there is difference in performance of each article type. Mastery of definite article is the highest (Mean=60.78)Keywords: definite article; indefinite article; partitive article; performance; mastery


2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Abu-Laban ◽  
Claude Couture

Abstract.In this article we re-establish the relevance of linguistic diversity by highlighting that French is a minority language spoken by a growing number of non-white and non-Christian minority groups, including Muslims. These groups are often characterized in contemporary Canada as essentially non-modern, traditional and opposed to secularism—characterizations that were used historically to depict French ethnic minorities as essentially Catholic, traditional and non-modern. Utilizing a historically grounded case study of the evolution of French language education rights in Alberta, the study reveals how “Franco-Albertans” are a linguistic minority comprised of other minorities. We also show the contradictions inherent in dichotomous representations of “secularism” when it comes to “Western” and “non-Western” societies, or “Christian” and “Muslim” groups. We argue that in expanding the discipline's focus to deal with a wider range of “groups,” analysts need to attend to how “multiple minorities” may take analytically relevant forms, and be wary of evolutionary and dichotomous constructions of diverse “others.”Résumé.Dans cet article, nous redonnons une place importante à la question linguistique comme dimension politique fondamentale au Canada, et au français comme langue minoritaire parlée par un nombre croissant de groupes minoritaires non blancs et non chrétiens, y compris les musulmans. Ces groupes, ce qui n'est pas selon nous sans intérêt, sont souvent globalement décrits aujourd'hui comme étant non modernes, traditionnels et opposés au sécularisme dans un discours qui n'est pas sans évoquer la façon dont les Canadiens français furent historiquement décrits comme une société strictement catholique et prémoderne. Dans ce cas-ci, le Canada francophone est étudié à travers le prisme de la francophonie albertaine, elle-même composée de plusieurs minorités. Nous nous concentrons en particulier sur les droits scolaires en Alberta et un lien est aussi établi entre cette situation et la description souvent dichotomique par rapport au sécularisme de la société canadienne entre les groupes «occidentaux» et «non occidentaux» ou encore entre les groupes «chrétiens» d'un côté, et de l'autre, les groupes de la diversité multiculturelle canadienne, notamment les musulmans francophones. La thèse de cet article est qu'en élargissant le champ d'investigation de la discipline de façon à inclure un éventail de groupes plus grand, les analystes doivent être vigilants quant à l'articulation complexe du concept de «minorités multiples» de façon à éviter les constructions trop évolutionnistes et dichotomiques des divers «autres».


Author(s):  
Rabiah Adawi

This study aims to describe the attitude appraisal system contained in the French thesis text at UNIMED. The method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative method. The research sample is the French thesis text at UNIMED on behalf of Ayokta Ghea M. Panjaitan, NIM. 21013001 where the type of thesis is linguistics with the title Analyze De Champ Lexical Des Activités Des Yeux En Français (Analysis of the Lexical Meaning of Eye Activity in French) totaling 58 pages with the highest GPA of 3.85 and Irna Fadillah Nasution, NIM. 2101131002 with a GPA of 3.45 with the title of the thesis Analyze Sémiotique De La Publicite Femme De Beauté Dans Le Magazine Femme Actuelle (Semiotic Analysis of Beauty Advertisements in the French Magazine Femme Actuelle) totaling 60 pages that have been validated by native speakers teaching at the French Language Education Study Program UNIMED in 2015 and also teaches at the Alliance Française (AF) called Marine Petite. Data were analyzed using the Simple Concordance Program (SCP) concordance program software using the Apraisal system, namely: Attitude Apraisal. The results showed that the Apraisal System in the French Thesis text at UNIMED was the Paradigmatic System because the Apraisal System in the French thesis text consisted of (a). Gender (le gendre), which consists of: masculine (masculin) and feminine (féminin) and (b). Total (le nombre), which consists of: single (singulier) and plural (pluriel).


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-97
Author(s):  
Jan Strelinger ◽  
Pavol Kita ◽  
Jaroslav Kita ◽  
Veronika Kitova Mazalanova ◽  
Ferdinand Dano

Abstract Objective: Characterize pedagogical innovation in the context of internationalization of French-language education on the example of international study programme in French language - Sales management at the Faculty of Trade of the University of Economics in Bratislava and testing of its attractiveness from the perspective of the relationship between students and educational institution. Methodology: Article deals with the analysis of the influence of internationalization of the university education within the study programme Management of sale, as well survey of the opinions of its graduates. Findings: Pedagogical innovation is not only the tool of the educational policy but also creates conditions of the project European term and excellence in the development of Professional competences of the future managers. Value Added: International study programme in French language overcomes cultural and disciplinary barriers and contributes to offsetting of the national and international differences. Recommendations: Introducing of pedagogical innovations is the tool of new approaches, strategies, methods, as well as new content and new organization of education to guarantee employability of students on the home and international markets.


1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Normand Frenette ◽  
Saeed Quazi

This paper reports on a comparative and longitudinal study of French-language minority access to higher education in Ontario. The province of Ontario provides homogeneous French-language and bilingual 'mixed' schools at the elementary and secondary levels as well as bilingual institutions at the tertiary level. Since 1990, there has been a homogeneous French language college serving the Eastern region of the province, to which was added two new colleges in 1995. While French- language programs are available throughout the province, it remains that English language programs and institutions are usually more accessible both geographically and regarding the depth and variety of programs. Experience has shown that in this particular minority language setting, it is the offer of minority language educational services that creates the demand, rather than the converse. Thus, the provision of French- medium programs is followed by an increase in minority enrollments and the preference for French-medium programs, even though English- medium programs are more numerous and more convenient. The reduction of French-medium programs is followed by the decline of minority enrollments, even though Francophones are clearly bilingual and in many cases even more at ease in the majority language than in their mother tongue.


Author(s):  
Nathalie Bélanger

Résumé Le choix de l’école par les familles est à la fois une réalité nouvelle et ancienne dans le paysage scolaire en Ontario. Cette notion est examinée dans le contexte de l’instruction en langue française dans cette province, une instruction qui a épousé différentes formes à travers le temps et selon les espaces locaux où elle s’est implantée. Des faits sociohistoriques rassemblés et présentés par le Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne française de l’Université d’Ottawa et disponibles sur son site Internet, des études de cas historiques et monographies ainsi que des résultats issus de nos propres recherches sont mis en relation. Il en ressort que les parents et les communautés influencent, par leurs actions et leurs choix, et à travers le temps et l’espace, les formes que prend l’instruction dans la langue de la minorité et que ces formes scolaires et les politiques publiques d’éducation qui les sous-tendent contribuent, en retour, à structurer le choix scolaire des familles.    AbstractChoice of schooling by families is both a new trend and an old one in Ontario. In this article, the notion of school choice is examined as it applies to French-language education, which has taken various forms over time and in different local contexts across the province. The author brings together sociohistorical data compiled and presented online by the Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne française at the University of Ottawa, historical case studies and monographs, as well as new original research. From those sources it becomes clear that parents and communities have, through their actions and choices, influenced the forms taken by minority-language education; and that, in return, those different forms and the education policies that underpin them have helped to structure the schooling choices made by families.     


Author(s):  
Nicolas Kenny

In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the underfunding of British Columbia’s Conseil scolaire francophone constitutes a breach of Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees in matters of minority-language education. While this marked the end of a decade of judicial proceedings, this article situates the decision in a broader historical context by examining the struggle to develop French-language educational programs in BC. If the province did not experience the education crises that tore through other parts of Canada in the decades following Confederation, BC francophones seized on the growing acceptance of bilingualism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s to fight for an education system catering to their linguistic and cultural aspirations. Shifting the scholarly focus from the constitutional negotiating tables at which sat politicians and high-level bureaucrats to the kitchen tables around which parent groups gathered to formulate their demands, this article traces the grassroots battle to bring French-language schools to the province with Canada’s highest rate of linguistic assimilation.


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