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>Subject: Re: #7486 French Materials
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Hi,

We at Phillips Academy use film in many of our beginning and intermediate
level French courses.

First year, we use the Annenberg Series, French in Action, an integrated
series of video, audio, and text materials. We've liked it, though some feel
it's becoming dated. No news here.  I'm sure you know all about this.

In advanced second year, we use Sartre's Les Jeux sont faits.  We have made
up our own pronunciation and grammar exercises to go along with this.  We'd
be happy to share these if there is interest.  We also use La Rue Cases
Negres in regular second year.  We have fewer materials for this film, but
we are developing them all the time.

In third year, perhaps the equivalent of some college second year courses,
we use Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants.  We have a complete suite of
materials developed.  Certain sections of the movie have been excerpted for
concentrated study.  They have text under the scene that students are meant
to scroll along as it plays, in effect providing their own subtitles; the
text has clickable text glossed for vocabulary - they could also be used to
expand on cultural and historical topics; comprehension and grammar
exercises based on the scenes follow the video presentation.

We also use several authoring tools to makes these.  "Makers" from
Middlebury and Swarthmore for the web, SuperMaclang (an old beta version
developed in 1993 that is elegantly simple and only $25 for a site license,
but only works in OS 9, Mpower, and PowerPoint.  All these can be made to
create a really nice suite of materials.  We also stream video and audio
materials to students in their dorms, taking care to observe current
copyright law as best we can understand it.

We also have an outreach program called TeacherTech
(http://www.pafaculty.net/teachertech/). The Director of our Language
Leaning Center (me) and one teacher from either Phillips or Brooks school
provide onsite workshops designed for individual schools through
consultation  with members of their Language Departments.  These can last
from a single morning to an entire week.  In your case we can share our
materials and teach teachers how to make their own.  In French and Spanish,
we also make materials to order.  You tell us the movie or text, what kind
of materials you'd like (or we can collaborate to decide what might be most
appropriate) and then we go off and produce them, checking with you
frequently to make sure we're on the right track.

Contact me if you'd like more details on any of this.


Henry B. Wilmer, Jr.
Director, Language Learning Center
Phillips Academy
180 Main Street
Andover, MA  01810
978-749-4201
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On 4/20/04 2:30 PM, "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>> From: kramizeh <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: French Materials
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> Hello,
>       I'm looking for recommendations/suggestions for supplementary
> video materials/courses that could be used for 1st and 2nd year
> French students as well as Macintosh based French pronunciation and
> grammar software for the same. The department wants to build in a
> dedicated lab day into their program and we would like to consider a
> variety of learning options. Thanks. MVK
> --
> Michael V. Kramizeh
> Language Laboratory Manager
> Language Learning Center
> Michigan State University
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