A L'Ecoute de France-Inter: The Use of Radio in a Student-Centered Oral French Class.

Abstract

ORAL FRENCH, Conversational French, Cours pratique, whatever the rubric the problems are the same: there has to be something to talk about, students need an incentive for spirited participation, and the teacher must provide for variety and interest without dominating class activities. In developing the intermediate or advanced course designed to allow practice in spontaneous self-expression teachers of French have looked primarily to literary texts, cultural readers, and/or various French newspapers and magazines to provide the basis for student exposes or topos to be followed, hopefully, by group discussion. More often than not, alas, the ensuing discussion is less than lively. The teacher finds himself prodding and prompting a discussion for which the majority of his students are either unprepared (both linguistically and culturally), or which they find frankly uninteresting. It is after repeated experiences of this kind that the teacher notes, and justly so, that leading a conversation class can be considerably more taxing than preparing a lecture for a literature course.

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