Commercial French: An Opportunity for Innovative Classroom Techniques.

Abstract

ALTHOUGH LANGUAGE TEACHERS OFTEN TALK of using innovative techniques in the classroom, in actual fact, the exigencies of grammar texts, readers, and departmental syllabi tend to make it difficult to do much really creative teaching. There is usually just not enough time to cover necessary material and to experiment with new techniques. The teaching of offers an unexpected opportunity to get away from the more structured learning procedures and to train students to use actively in a variety of situations. Last fall Hamilton College introduced a course entitled Career Skills in This one-semester course was open to all students who had completed the equivalent of four semesters of college-level French. Because students at the third year level are not yet proficient, and because Hamilton emphasizes a broad liberal education, however, it was decided not to teach the traditional, office-centered commercial French but to concentrate on skills that would be useful to a person having to deal with speakers in a business situation.

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