This workshop explores how digital platforms enhance language learning through student collaboration and real-world connections. Tools like Perusall, Hypothesis, and TalkAbroad enable students to collaborate on authentic texts and engage with native speakers. The session will demonstrate how to integrate these platforms into curricula to enrich classroom learning and foster deeper engagement.
French Faculty & Program Language Coordinator, Santa Rosa Junior College
I teach French and coordinate the French Language Program at Santa Rosa Junior College, CA. My research interests focus on implementing innovative pedagogical frameworks that reinforce students' 21st-century skills, foster new literacies, including media productions and digital narratives... Read More →
Are you interested in broadening your French curriculum by including Haitian culture and helping students break stereotypes? Haiti’s history has often been erased, and the media have mainly reduced Haiti to a country plagued by poverty and chaos, but the French classroom is the ideal place to change this narrative by including Haitian voices.
Project-based language learning (PBLL) has been shown to motivate students, but designing projects can be an arduous process. This session uses a museum project inspired by PBLL to provide a template for designing engaging projects that extend beyond the classroom and foster global connectedness even when it is not feasible to include all elements of traditional PBLL.
Project-based language learning (PBLL) has been shown to motivate students, but designing projects can be an arduous process. This session uses a museum project inspired by PBLL to provide a template for designing engaging projects that extend beyond the classroom and foster global connectedness even when it is not feasible to include all elements of traditional PBLL.
