Useful Ideas for Promoting French In and Out of the Classroom

Articles from past issues of the AATF National Bulletin.

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Promotion and Advocacy
General Promotional Ideas	French for Special Purposes	Increasing Enrollment	Promotional Activities	Travel and Tourism
Promoting French at the University	National French Week Activities	Book Club Archives
Advocacy
Useful Information		What to Do
Classroom Activities
Art	Cinema	Culture Projects	Francophonie	Internet
Literature	Salut les jeunes!	Travel	Other Ideas	General Information

• Small Grant Reports

• National French Week Reports

Classroom Activities

Art

• Art as a Tool for Language Teaching

Cinema

• C'est du déjà vu...au cinéma (American Remakes of French Films)

• Diabolo Menthe: Peppermint Soda

• Francophone Cinema, a Primer

• Francophone Film: Pièces d'identités

• Les Liaisons dangereuses: The Devil and the Cinema of Cruelty Come to the Aid of an 18^th-Century Literature Course

Culture Projects

• À la découverte de l’Union européenne

• Le Destin fabuleux de Grégory Lemarchal (1983-2007)

• French Culture Project: Regions in France

• How to Enjoy French Food in the Classroom

• Le Proverbe français: clé de la langue et de la culture

• On the Teaching of French Culture through the Press

• Qu’est-ce que tu manges?

• Teaching Culture with Grafitti

Francophonie

• "Cajun," "Cadjin," ou "Cadien:" Une Question Socio- et Psycho-linguistique

• Le Français m'ouvre le monde

• Le Français m'ouvre le monde: La Belgique

• Haiti

  • Haiti Before the Earthquake

  • Hope for Haiti

  • 48 heures en enfer

• Louisiana French Expressions

• Qu'est-ce que les Américains ont à faire avec les Français?

• Qui nous mène?

• Tchantchès le Liégois

• Teaching About "La Francophonie et les États-Unis"

  • La Francophonie et les États-Unis: Teaching Activities

  • Relation Reading Text

  • Journal - De la Harpe

• Teaching about les Acadiens

Internet

• Classroom Activities and Internet: Using Search Engines in French

• Easy Button for Free Basic Web Sites

• Paris: A Virtual Tour

• Photo Story, a Low-Tech Storytelling Tool

• Quebec Internet Tourist Sites

• Technology Works in this Classroom

• See also on-line ideas

• Telematics Commission

  • Telematics Commission Report: Using Accents

  • French Podcasting

  • Growing "Net" Worth of French

  • Promoting Speaking in the Target Language Via Rich Internet Applications

  • Student Video Projects

  • Tu and vous in Hypertext

  • Twitter for Language and Culture

  • Update Your Movie and Audio Selection in the Classroom with the Help of (Free) VLC Media Playing Shareware

  • Videoconferencing

  • What in the Wiki?

Poetry / Literature / Song / Theater

• A Case for Teaching Oscar et la dame rose

• Interdisciplinaire à la carte: Making Connections in the French Class (Phantom of the Opera)

• Learning Project for French II Students Studying Poetry

• «Madeleine» et Brel en classe de français

• Musical Legacy of Carole Fredericks Introduced in Martinique

• “La Musique C'est Quelque Chose de Magique:" Mes Aïeux

• Notre-Dame de Paris: le spectacle comme outil pédagogique

• Petit Déjeuner avec Prévert et Queneau

• Refreshed Reading of Voltaire's Candide

• Sound of French Music

• Une si longue lettre

Travel Reports or Activities

• Excursion to St.-Pierre et Miquelon

• Exploring Québec: Hier, aujourd'hui, demain (en anglais)

• Immersion 2005: From Paris to the Pyrenees

• Journal d'un assistant américain en France 2002-2003

• On Présente Paris

• U.S. School Administrator Reflects on Experiences in France

• 2006 U.S. Administrators Visit France

General Information

• DeGaulle et l'Algérie: Première Partie

• DeGaulle et l'Algérie: Seconde Partie

• La France vue par les Français Part I

• La France vue par les Français Part II

• Quand les Français ouvraient la marche vers l'ouest américain

• Ségolène et les animaux

Other Ideas for Activities

• Directions Game

• Four Walls and the Fourth Wall, or How to Create an Animated French Classroom

• Creative Writing in French

• Games (en anglais; version française)

• Money for Nothing Chapter Fund Raiser

• Mystery Theater in the French Classroom

• Petit Déjeuner à la française

• Quel nombre?

• Another Reason to Learn French (Crossword Puzzles)

• Crossword Puzzle Activity Packet

• Culture des cafés en classe

• "French in English" Activity

• Lily Daché, vous connaissez?

• Power of the Dream as Expressed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the European Union

  • Classroom Activity: Martin Luther King

  • Salut les jeunes! Activity for Martin Luther King Day

• Salut les jeunes! (FLES* Activities)

  • L'Arbre généalogique

  • Le Baseball

  • Cartes postales

  • Gender Dilemma

  • J'aime le chocolat!

  • Joyeux Noël

  • Martin Luther King Day

  • Métro boulot dodo

  • La Salle de classe

  • Tabou

  • Vous et tu

• La Vie des mots et Mots chassés

Promotion

General Promotional Ideas

• Affirm French

• Timeline of Events for an Active French Program (en anglais; version française)

• Les Moines et les Missionnaires

• Marketing French: New Strategies

• SWAAF: Collegiality and Collaboration Yield Rich Rewards

• French Moments in State History

French for Special Purposes

• The French Language and Business

• Giving Beginning French Students the Business: The Case for Teaching Business French at the Beginning Level

Increasing Enrollment

• French for Fun: An Idea to Promote French

• Golden Opportunity

• Increasing French Enrollment in Middle School Program

• Language of the Stars

• Promoting French to Spanish Speakers

• Vive le Français: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Students in French Classes

• How to Recruit Students and Support Teachers

• Who Says We Can't Do It?

Promotional Activities

• Service-Learning in French

• French Plus!

• Peace Corps Returnees Broaden French Students' Horizons

• Promoting the AATF at the State Level

• Role of the Chapter President

• National French Week Activities That Work (see also)

• French for Fun

Travel and Tourism

• Discover French-Speaking Louisiana: A Brief Guide to Creating an "Acadiana Adventure Tour"

• Students Pedaled the Pyrenees and Beyond

• School Administrators Visit France

• Promoting French Through Music

Promoting French at the University

• Building Better Bridges from Secondary School to College: Foreign Language Training and Current Trends to International Studies

• Le Français est la langue des champions

• The Impact of the Atlantis Double Degree Program on French Majors at Canisius College

• Promoting French in Colleges and Universities

• Raising the Visibility of French on the College Campus with Pi Delta Phi

• URI French Program Expands to One of the Largest in the U.S.

Courses

• On the Teaching of Francophone Cultures to Anglophone Students

Advocacy

Useful information

• Top Languages: the World's Ten Most Influential Languages

• AATF Internet Use Policy

• AATF K-12 Policy Statement

• The Aftermath of 9/11 and Year of Languages: From Sputnik Moment to Real Momentum in Language Policy

• Canadians are Coming

• Le Français pas compliqué: An Advocacy Moment

• French: The Most Practical Foreign Language New Area for Foreign Languages

• A New Era for Foreign Languages

• On the Importance of Knowing Other Languages

What to Do

• ABC's of Elementary School Foreign Language Programs: A Guide for Parents

• Advocacy Lessons Learned

• Advocacy Tips

• Making Your Voice Heard is Important

• The Power of One, the Support of Many: On Single Deeds that Can Save French Programs

• Preemptive Strike: The AATF Works to Preserve Choice for Kids

• Repairing After One Storm, Preparing for the Next: AATF Advocacy

• Saving a French Program

• Unabashed: Defending French without Defensiveness

• Your French Program is Worth Saving

For more information contact AATF National Headquarters, Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901; Tel: (618) 453-5731; Fax: (618) 453-5733; E-mail: abrate@siu.edu

Created: November 6, 2000
Last update: April 26

, 2010

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