I have been teaching French for over 40 years at the university level. I taught FSL at the elementary level for 22 years. I taught Arabic also at the university level. Since 2002, I have been creating resources in the domain of second languages, in French, English, Arabic and Spanish.
Throughout my teaching career, I have always put emphasis on the importance of enabling the students to speak the language in question properly. All my resources aim at engaging the learners and preparing them to master a rich vocabulary so they can improve their verbal fluency, read with intonation and expression and write properly.
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Since last year, I have been creating video-lessons that are a continuation of the classroom work, and can be used at home to enable the students to speak French off school. Furthermore, these video-lessons can engage the parents also, and help them learn French so they can accompany their children on their French journey. My ultimate goal is to help students fulfill their dream of speaking the language first, understanding what they say, using it at ease, reading it with intonation and expression and then writing it. These steps, in my view, enable the students to be proud of speaking French, help them raise their level of verbal fluency rather than their level of frustration, and prepare them, in a real and not perceived way, to never say again: "I understand the question but I am not confident enough to respond".
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific
English Language Arts, World Language, French, Arabic, Literature, en Français