I am always looking for corpora of spoken French for my research so I was quite surprised to come across several freely available resources on the internet in the past week. Most of these corpora contain audio and/or video with transcripts of authentic and spontaneous spoken French – perfect for self-study or use in a [...]
Full Story »About Jennie
Website: http://www.ielanguages.com
Jennie has written 661 articles so far, you can find them below.
Authentic French with Commercials and Films
Friday was my 30th birthday and as my birthday gift to all of you, I give you even more authentic French listening resources and exercises! Luckily we have a great language lab at my university so I have been able to create some listening exercises for my students to try out, and of course I [...]
Full Story »Examples of Authentic French: The Case of Ils
As a follow up to my post on Subject Pronouns in Textbooks: Written vs. Spoken French and how French textbooks do not include the spoken meanings of the pronouns, I came across a few examples of the use of ils in the indefinite sense while preparing transcripts to use in class. Textbooks still teach that on [...]
Full Story »ANZAC Day
April 25 is the anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand forces landing on Gallipoli in 1915. Now it is a day of national remembrance to honour those who died in military operations and wars. Learn more about the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day tradition at the Australian War Memorial site.
Full Story »Links from the Australian Teachers of French Conference
The conference I attended in Perth at the beginning of April was The Federation of Australian Teachers of French Associations Biennial Conference and the Teachers of French Association of Western Australia Annual Stage. I presented my research on the gap between what applied linguists recommend for inclusion in textbooks and what is actually in the [...]
Full Story »Off to Perth for a Teachers of French Conference
I fly to Perth, Western Australia, tomorrow to present at the Teachers of French Association Conference. My presentation on the vocabulary coverage of French textbooks will include the beginning stages of my PhD project. I will report back on all of the presentations and everything new I learn about teaching and learning French in Australia [...]
Full Story »More Beginning French Songs
More French songs for beginners! I like quirky (ok, weird) repetitive songs that make the vocabulary stick. L’alphabet Comment tu t’appelles ? Les prénoms Ça va (there is no actual video for this song but I love the Muppets!)
Full Story »Mind the Word extension for Chrome: Learn languages as you browse the web
If you use Google Chrome as your web browser, Mind the Word is a useful extension to help you learn vocabulary in another language while you browse the web. From the description: “In every webpage visited, it randomly translates a few words into the language that you would like to learn. By exposing you to [...]
Full Story »International Women’s Day and Encouraging Women to Learn Languages
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Improving the lives of women is very important to me, especially since women continue to be oppressed all over the world – including in my own country. I truly believe education is the key to [...]
Full Story »Beginning French Songs and Videos
I am teaching beginning French this semester and since all of the classrooms are equipped with computers and projectors, I have been delighting my students with weird songs and videos to reinforce the vocabulary they are learning. So for beginning learners of French or other French teachers who want to use videos in class, here [...]
Full Story »
