Invitation
Vous êtes enseignant(e) anglais – français langue seconde?
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Invitation
Are you an English – French – teacher and/ or student?
You are invited to create interesting activities for the community of language learners here in Québec. This is an opportunity for you to get to know other teachers and learners – to contribute to a bilingual project and to practice your L2 language skills. How? – Just click on the “comment” button and communicate: your ideas – your email – your phone number. Your comments will NOT be published on this blog. They will arrive as email, and the author of this blog has the commitment to answer all mails.

Voici les rétroactions de quelques apprenants d'anglais L2 qui ont discuté entre eux quels bénéfices présente une conversation avec un anglophone - et quelles activités ils aimeraient réaliser ensemble. Les réactions des étudiants à l'École de Langues à l'Université Laval étaient très positivies.
Voici ce qu'ils ont noté à la suite de leurs discussion:

Benefits the ESL students mentioned
Learn new words – try out new words
Meet people (from a different culture), make friends, learn how to build relationships
Get to know the city
Talk about one’s feelings - Express opinions – talk about anything they want, without being evaluated
Become more confident when talking English / (French for Anglophone natives)
Have a discussion in another language – speak outside the classroom
Be corrected by the Anglophone native – be able to laugh about one’s mistakes
Listen to a native speaker and use his/her speech as a model
- Meet someone with similar interests –
Meet motivated learners – to boost one’s own motivation
Get to know art from Québec (Riopelle)
It is easier to talk in small groups

Activities the ESL students suggested
Museum visit:
Take a guided tour
Compare the museum visit to previous ones (in other places)
Suggest one or two activities – (not too many)
Match two to three Francophones with the same number of Anglophones
the picture – object – should have written explanation
learner’s attention should be drawn to specific objects – exhibits
ask each other questions about the exhibits
exercising memory during the activities
The learners discuss what they saw
Correct each other
One Francophone and one Anglophone visit the museum together, then they meet with another pair of students and report to them (in their L2) what they saw.
The native speaker explains, the L2 speaker asks questions
Tell each other what was the most interesting exhibit they saw

Visit the city

Take a guided tour

Visit the vegetable garden (Musée de la Civilation)

Take a city map and invent an interesting tour (example: turn left five times, then turn right five times, and see where you end up)

Take the ferry

Go to a restaurant

Projet de communauté
L’objectif du projet
Pour les apprenants de FLE - ESL, créer des activités à l’occasion de leurs visites au musée qui auraient lieu en dyade: un élève francophone avec un élève anglophone
Les communautés suivantes sont concernées :
Les enseignants dans d’anglais et de français langue seconde à Québec et aux alentours
Les équipes des services d’éducation
du Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec
du Musée de la Civilisation à Québec
Les communautés suivantes auront un bénéfice du projet :
Les apprenants, francophones et anglophones, qui prennent des cours d’anglais ou de français

Community Project
In the context of this project, I have the intention to
create activities for learners of FLE - ESL to be completed during museum visits in pairs: one French-native, one English-native
The following communities are invited to contribute to the project:
Language teachers (English and French as a second language) in Québec and the Québec region
The education service teams of the following museums
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec
Musée de la Civilisation in Québec City

The following community will benefit from the project :
Students with French and English as native language who study English or French as a second language