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A. LISTENING OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
A1. Listening to Understand: determine meaning in a variety of authentic and adapted oral French texts, using a range of listening strategies;
A2. Listening to Interact: interpret messages accurately while interacting in French for a variety of purposes and with diverse audiences;
A3. Intercultural Understanding: demonstrate an understanding of information in oral French texts about aspects of culture in diverse French-speaking communities and other communities around the world, and of French sociolinguistic conventions used in a variety of situations and communities.
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
A1. Listening to Understand
By the end of this course, students will:
A1.1 Using Listening Comprehension Strategies: identify a range of listening comprehension strategies, and use them before, during, and after listening to understand explicit and implicit messages in oral French texts (e.g., identify changes in tone and rhythm that convey meaning; choose a graphic organizer that suits their own learning style and use it to help them formulate ideas and thoughts when listening; make notes on ideas and messages that are understood and those that may require further clarification)
Teacher prompts: “Quelles sont les raisons pour lesquelles tu écoutes les nouvelles, une critique d’un film, ou une chanson?” “De quelle façon les stratégies d’écoute t’aident-elles à enrichir ta compréhension?” “Comment est-ce que tu attribues un sens au message en te basant
sur le contexte de la communication?”
Instructional tips:
(1) Teachers can suggest that students create a mind map to activate their prior knowledge about the topic of a presentation they will listen to.
(2) Teachers can help students determine how the use of the personal subject pronouns “nous” and “on” in an oral text can affect the message conveyed.
A1.2 Demonstrating Understanding: demon- strate an understanding of explicit and implicit messages about a variety of topics in oral French texts, with contextual and visual support (e.g., identify familiar and unfamiliar words and phrases used commonly on a commercial sightseeing tour; extract the main message and supporting details from a podcast; predict future outcomes based on
a news report about a current issue; analyse the participants’ intent by listening to the way a group of adolescents express opinions during an interview; in a small group, generate headings to organize information after a listening activity; listen to
a presentation on a postsecondary program and describe the jobs that are related to the field of study)
Teacher prompts: “Comment l’intonation du locuteur dans un texte t’aide-t-elle à interpréter son message?” “Quelles stratégies d’écoute te sont utiles pour comprendre la vidéo?” “Quels indices l’auteur utilise-t-il pour t’aider à comprendre son message?”
Instructional tips:
(1) Teachers can suggest that students listen for temporal expressions used to enumerate significant points (e.g., “premièrement”, ”deuxièmement”) to help them understand the development of an argument presented in an oral text.
(2) Teachers can suggest that students record the use of impersonal verbal expressions denoting possibility or obligation (e.g., “il faut que”,
“il est nécessaire que”, “il est important que”) followed by the subjonctif.
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