Department of French and Italian

Broadly speaking, Applied Linguistics is the field of study that seeks to apply findings from core areas of linguistics to real-world issues, in our case primarily the pedagogy of French as a foreign language in the United States. Inter alia, we will explore aspects of variability in French, including social, stylistic, and geographical variation, and implications of such variability for the FLE (français langue étrangère) classroom. Our study will be enriched by a survey of the linguistic situation in various Francophone regions of the world. All of this will lead us to a discussion of standard norms and the development of pedagogical norms. The examination of norms in the French-speaking world points also to the question of what it means to be a native speaker / a near-native speaker / a heritage speaker, and why the native speaker construct has been problematized in the applied linguistic literature. We will also inquire what light immersion programs can shed on learning a foreign language in a classroom setting and pay some attention to issues of language policy in France and the Francophone world.

FRIT-F 580    #30312        3:55P-5:10P      MW       BH 214          Prof. Kevin Rottet
FRIT-F 580    #30396        3:55P-5:10P      MW       WEB              Prof. Kevin Rottet