Welcome to this lecture entitled "Teaching beginner learners of French through input-based tasks"!
Seminar
Date
12 Feb 2025
Time
15:15 - 17:00
Location
Room F412, Humanisten, Renstr枚msgatan 6
Participants
Rosemary Erlam, University of Auckland
Good to know
The seminar will be held in English
Organizer
Department of Languages and Literatures
Titel: Teaching beginner learners of French through input-based tasks
This presentation reports on an experimental study that investigated the effectiveness of input-based language tasks with beginner learners of French. The students (aged approx.13 yrs) completed a series of tasks that were designed to help them acquire incidentally new vocabulary and markers of plurality (i.e., des, sont). The tasks were taught by their regular French teacher. The students were given no grammatical explanation about these structures. Results show that the students learnt to both understand and produce the new vocabulary even though they had not had the opportunity to produce it in class. They also show that they learnt to understand but not produce the new grammatical structures. This study is interesting because it addresses a number of issues:
whether task-based language teaching can be used effectively with beginner learners
whether grammatical explanations are essential for learning
to what extent an input-based approach facilitates language learning
