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Monica Stampfl

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May 21, 2012, 9:14:43 AM5/21/12
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Maurice,

I notified College Board in 2 ways.  I posted on the AP French Community board.  Here is the link:   https://apcommunity.collegeboard.org/web/apfrench/home you will need to sign in.

And I asked the administrator in charge of the AP exams to submit a formal complaint to college board.  She asked the teacher who was proctoring the exam to write a statement as well. 

Let's keep our fingers crossed that this doesn't negatively effect our students.

Monica

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    cathy bouabre <cathy....@benlippen.com> May 19 12:48PM -0700  

    I plan to use Allons au dela this fall for AP French. As many of you
    have been using the text this year, and while it is fresh in your
    minds, could you give some advice as to how many chapters to plan to
    cover in the school year; are there certain chapters that are
    exceptionally I interesting; how and when should one use Ladd APFrench
    book and/or the REA book? How much did you use other authentic
    sources not in these books?

     

    "Allen, Lisa" <all...@lmsd.org> May 19 05:34PM  

    Thanks James, Great suggestion. I just put a post on the AP French
    webpage.
     
    Lisa
     

     

    Lucy Wise-Gladwell <lucyt...@hotmail.com> May 19 11:19AM -0400  

    There is no absolute right or wrong. You do what you feel benefits your students and what feels comfortable to you. I use movies fairly often, and I do many different things with them depending on the level and interest of the class. With a level 1or 2 I see no problem with using subtitles, then give vocabulary to re-tell the story in French. I just showed "Petit Nicolas " in level 2, with subtitles in English. We had vocabulary for each part, and we used parts of 3 classes to see it. The kids loved it. They kept track of the characters as the movie progressed, and wrote an outline of the conflicts and resolutions and added their own opinion of the movie at the end. They also divided the movie up into 8 scenes and acted it out, all in their level of French. They did a wonderful job. (I almost always let students act out scenes in their own French. They really jump into it!)
    I do similar activities in higher level classes, but expect a more extensive output from them. I have never shown a movie entirely in French without subtitles! My students are in their 4th year at their highest level, and they would feel completely defeated by 2 hours of French! Remember too that movies often have slang, unfamiliar accents, improper grammar, etc., etc. I choose pieces to see without subtitles, or show sections with French subtitles, discuss what they think they heard, and then show the same scene with English subtitles so they see exactly what they got. They usually are proud to see what they understood, and then accept more pieces in French because they're "getting it".
    I'm not trying to say "do what I do". What I'm saying is there are many ways to do a good job and you as the teacher are the best one to decide what works. Do your students look forward to movies? Do they use things they've learned from a movie in later work? Do they refer back to them in critical thinking activities? Then you're doing fine. Exhale and carry on....
     
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    Elaine Burg <elain...@gmail.com> May 19 11:37AM -0400  

    That is an excellent response. Teaching strategies are not one size fits
    all. I think keeping your objectives in mind will help guide you to how you
    should present movies and their content within the context of your
    classroom.
    Elaine
     

     

    Narine Hovhannissyan <narine.hov...@arm.qsi.org> May 19 09:32PM +0400  

    Thank you very much. That was very helpful and reassuring. As I said I use
    many activities with the movies I show in class depending on my objectives.
    But as I mentioned in my previous email, the problem is that that ESL
    teacher is traying to make me feel wrong, while I have wonderfull results
    with my students. I am working in an American school, which is functioning
    in Armenia, and French is one of our foreign languages that we offer at
    school. And I must say that probably out of 80students 45 are taking
    French, which makes me believe that French department is doing much better
    than 3 other languages offered. And I should say that Armenia is not a
    francophone country. And I feel very confortable not stopping the movie for
    every 15 min. as I am sure of my students abilities and interests. I may
    sound very arrogant an furious at the same time, and I am always open to
    suggestions and advises, but my students' results are more reassuring.
    Thanks again for your responses.
    On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Elaine Burg wrote:
     
     
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    Narine Hovhannissyan
    Head of Language Department
    AP/French Teacher
    QSI International School of Yerevan
    tel: 374. 10. 349130
    www.qsi.org

     

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