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Developing Oral Proficiency in the Literature Classroom

Virginia Scott

CSLS Professional Development February 1, 2013

Copyright by Virginia M. Scott 2013All Rights Reserved

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3 Modes of Communication

The literature class is an ideal setting for developing the 3 modes of communication:interpersonal students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions

interpretive students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics

presentational students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics

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Issues of concern:

• students with limited reading skillssummary of facts vs. critical response

• students with limited oral skillsaccuracy vs. comprehensibility functions required to discuss literary texts:

expressing opinion, explaining, persuading

• students unwilling to talk in class teacher asks questions and is met with silence

(NB: undergraduate literature courses should not be simplified versions of graduate courses)

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Strategies for the literature classroom

Warm-up: Get students primed to talk (see handout #1)

Set a context for the discussion: historical, political, geographical, theoretical (use technologies whenever possible)

Design a task: students work at home and/or with a classmate to solve a problem (see handouts #2 & #3)

Ask one or two “big questions”: the warm-up, context, and task should elicit the facts about the literary text (who, what, where, when) and set the stage for a deeper discussion

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SAMPLE POWER POINT LESSON FOR

FRENCH 212

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Albert Camus:Ecrivain engagé

Français 212

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L’empire colonial français (1534-1980) a eu son apogée de 1919 à 1939

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La campagne d’Algérie1830-1857: campagne militaire pour

“pacifier” l’AlgérieRésistance continue contre l’armée

coloniale française

Emir Abd-el-Kader (1808-1883) homme politique chef militaire écrivain, poète philosophe théologien

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La campagne d’Algérie

1830: Prise d’Alger L’attaque d'Alger, toile de Léon

Morel-Fatio (à Versailles)

1945-1954: Révolte algérienne

1954-1962: La Guerre d’Algérie

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Le Front de libération nationale (FLN)En arabe: الوطني التحرير (Jabhat at-Tahrīr al-Waţanī) ,جبهة

Le FLN est un parti politique algérien qui a été créé en 1954 pour obtenir l'indépendance de l‘Algérie.

Les accords d’Evian en 1962 mènent à l’indépendance de l’Algérie de la France.

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Albert Camus1913-1960

Camus est né en Algérie d’une famille pied noir (les Français qui vivaient en Algérie avant l’indépendance).

Il voulait trouver une solution équitable du conflit. Pourtant, il était très mal compris par ses compatriotes pieds-noirs en Algérie.

Il était aussi détesté par les défenseurs du colonialisme français et était forcé de partir d'Alger sous protection.

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Un intellectuel engagé

Il s’installe à Paris en 1940 où il commence à être reconnu pour son engagement politique et littéraire.

Il est mort en France dans un accident de voiture.

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Un écrivain

Oeuvres connues:

1942: L’Etranger 1947: La Peste 1951: “L’Homme révolté”

(essai)

1956: La Chute

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Prix Nobel 1957

Agé de 44 ans, Camus reçoit le prix Nobel de littérature pour « l'ensemble d'une œuvre qui met en lumière les problèmes se posant de nos jours à la conscience des hommes. »

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Le discours et la narration

• Discours direct:– “J’aime Camus.”

• Discours indirect:– Elle a dit qu’elle aimait Camus.

• Discours indirect libre:– En classe l’autre jour elle a remarqué qu’elle aimait

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Questions à discuter

1) Quel est l’effet du discours indirect libre?

2) Comment Meursault est-il un “étranger”?

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