French as a Second Language Teaching: Identifying Methods that Improve Adult Learners’ Competencies
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French as a Second Language Teaching Identifying Methods that Im
Observational Activities The use of dialogues and presentation methods would enable the L2 adult learners to process the grammatical concepts taught. This is because these strategies serve as a starting point in the students' developmental process to develop oral proficiency in French. The interlanguage concept was developed to describe this process of learning a language that has a starting point and an ending point that becomes manifest when the learner acquires near-native perfection and proficiency (Chachu, 2016). The development of interlanguage abilities for adult FSL learners is a major challenge mainly due to the influences of L1 on the learning process. This process has numerous pitfalls for learners as language transfer from L1 might hinder the acquisition of FSL. However, teachers can overcome this challenge by employing observational activities that would enable students to assimilate the grammar discussed and processed in their lives. A good example of an observational activity is using multiple French magazine articles to teach students about phonological awareness. In this exercise, the teacher asks the students to highlight all the French words applied to an English phonemic system. The teacher can also make this activity a phoneme deletion task, whereby he/she would present several words verbally, one at a time, and require the student to delete a given sound. This deletion can be done at the initial, middle, or terminal level, after which the adult learners provide the remaining word in written format. This activity's main aim is to support the learners' acquisition of French 73 vocabulary using both oral and written inputs, both of which are needed to develop phonological awareness. In the beginning, adult L2 learners have low phonological awareness levels mainly because of L1 interferences and thus require both the oral and written forms to be used to provide more explicit instruction in FSL (Graham et al., 2017). These activities allow the students to acquire and practice new French vocabulary words and grammatical concepts as understood and practiced by native speakers. Emphasizing both the oral and written formats go a long way in minimizing the L1 interferences in the FSL learning process. Download 0.77 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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