Middlebury

FREN3306A-L12

Topics in French Language
Journey in Writing

This French composition course features a creative approach to process writing. Learners, individually or in groups of two (three maximum), select a genre, a mini-novel, skits or epistolary novel, and construct a story with embedded grammatical, rhetorical, and stylistic constraints. User-friendly instructive tools intended to stimulate creativity and facilitate language accuracy are readily available on the instructor's website. There, learners have access to a panoply of descriptive and narrative excerpts featuring various genres, moods, and registers. They also find pedagogically relevant reference works such as lexical and semantic webs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammatical descriptions, and literary, historical and Francophone civilization links. This carefully orchestrated course is a natural environment for 'scaffolding' and 'noticing' the gap between the language they experience from the various sources of input and their own output. It also aims at targeting 'avoidance' and 'overuse' strategies that often immobilize learners' language development and creativity.

No book required.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60211
Subject Code:
FREN
Course Number:
3306
Section Identifier:
A

Course

FREN 3306

All Sections in Summer 2012, LS 7 Week Session

Summer 2012, LS 7 Week Session

FREN3306A-L12 Lecture (Patenotte)
FREN3306B-L12 Lecture (Patenotte)
FREN3306C-L12 Lecture (Patenotte)