French as a Second Language Teaching: Identifying Methods that Improve Adult Learners’ Competencies

 
Potential Benefits to Participants 
The participants will explore alternative designs and new trends in teaching a foreign 
language, such as those featuring the non-linguistic aspects of communication, the use of 
spontaneous role-playing, discussion, games, and active learning, etc. They will take these into 
consideration as accompaniments to or replacements for their existing teaching methods. In other 
words, participants will aim to acquire increasing teaching data useful for their forthcoming 

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practices and attain a better understanding of their students’ backgrounds, competencies, learning 
skills, abilities, attitudes, and motivation while answering questions related to their teaching 
methods. 
 
 
Potential Risks 
According to the guidelines of the University of Windsor’s Research Ethics Board, 
“participants who are uncomfortable with any question can refuse to answer, and the interview 
will continue with that question skipped. Participants are free to withdraw from the interview at 
any time without penalty, so there is no pressure to answer uncomfortable questions or to stay for 
the completion of the research (University of Windsor, p.29). Furthermore, since my questions 
were not intended to provoke hostility or criticism towards any member, participants were not 
expected to answer in any kind of hostile or critical way. Although participants and their 
responses would be anonymized, it is possible that specific individuals would know which 
university (and potentially which individuals) had participated.
 
Review
In this study, several questions were elaborated upon about teaching FSL. Important 
research content includes the Microsoft Teams interviews conducted with the three professors. 
Questions without formal structure or other formal interview processes were sent to participants. 
Their answers were transcribed and analyzed, and this analysis was sent to the participants for 
their approval. I believe that this is the most appropriate way to collect information about FSL 
teaching and learning outcomes and approaches during the Covid-19 pandemic. Moreover, this 

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study examined the perspectives of adult second language teaching and learning theories and 
pedagogical hypotheses to fill the research gap about adult second language teachers' 
informational materials related to adult learning theories and rationality in adult learning 
institutions. This study’s data set, like any data set, permits multiple interpretations to understand 
the perspectives of adult learners.