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- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Framework
- Part II Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Government Programs
- Part III Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in University Programs
- Part IV Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Immersion Programs
- 12 Transformative Language Learning in the Overseas Immersion Environment
- 13 Transformative Dimensions of Community Engagement and Service Learning during In-Country Immersion
- 14 Immersion and Transformative Pedagogy in the French Language Department of the French War College
- 15 California’s K-12 Dual Language Programs
- Part V The Learner
- Part VI Faculty Development
- Part VII Assessment
- References
- Index
14 - Immersion and Transformative Pedagogy in the French Language Department of the French War College
from Part IV - Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Immersion Programs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2021
- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Framework
- Part II Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Government Programs
- Part III Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in University Programs
- Part IV Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Immersion Programs
- 12 Transformative Language Learning in the Overseas Immersion Environment
- 13 Transformative Dimensions of Community Engagement and Service Learning during In-Country Immersion
- 14 Immersion and Transformative Pedagogy in the French Language Department of the French War College
- 15 California’s K-12 Dual Language Programs
- Part V The Learner
- Part VI Faculty Development
- Part VII Assessment
- References
- Index
Summary
Immersive teaching of a foreign language seems a priori the best way to soak in a language and culture and promote an active, participative, and transformative pedagogy. However, immersion can create a number of obstacles to students taking charge of their own learning. This chapter, which takes its examples from the experience of the French Language Department of the French War College in Paris, addresses the concepts of pedagogical disengagement and sociolinguistic insecurity, as well as the discrepancy between the language of the classroom and language as used in the culture. Solutions for managing these obstacles are proposed, such as accounting for learner differences, developing open architecture curricula, moving beyond the four walls of the classroom, and averting potential overload by promoting the expressions of the learners' own cultures in the process of becoming acquainted with the foreign culture.
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- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching , pp. 129 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021