Francophone Cultures in the United States: Empathy, Empowerment, and Advocacy
As part of this session, I will join Dr. Kathleen Stein-Smith (Fairleigh Dickinson University) to share perspectives and tools for a living Francophonie. I will present the benefits of children's literature as tools for teaching and creating pleasure and curiosity among learners.
The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages provides services to all teachers of foreign languages, including those of modern, ancient, and less commonly taught languages and English as a second language. The organization also promotes the study of languages across the preschool, elementary, secondary, post-secondary and higher spectrum. It brings together 14 states of the Midwest.
Teaching in a minority setting is quite a challenge!
I will discuss it with teachers of French as a second language in Maine to offer them new avenues. It will of course be a question of books, and also of workshops and tools to make learning French even more dynamic.
The mission of the American Association of Teachers of French is to promote the teaching and learning of the French language and of French-speaking cultures and civilizations in the United States. It has chapters in every region of the country.