Standard 1: Learner Development:

The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that patterns of
learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social,
emotional, and physical areas and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and
challenging learning experiences.
Artifact 2 Lesson Plan- France in the Media
Class: FRE 537: France in the Media
National Standards for Foreign Language Learning: 1.1,1.2.3.1, 3.2,
For my second artifact for Standard 1 of Learner Development, I chose a lesson plan that
I did for my FRE 537 France in the Media class. The lesson was designed for a French 202 class
and I believe it shows that I recognize the different learning styles of students by incorporating a
variety of activities that will appeal in different ways to the students. There are many tools that
can be used in the classroom to captivate students attention. One of those tools is technology.
My French in the Media class offered many of these tools to improve my French such as through
listening to French radio, watching French home and garden television shows, or watching
French news. One website that I used in this lesson and absolutely love is News in slow French.
In my lesson plan, I explain to students how they can use the website to improve their listening
skills while reading the dialogue. One neat facet of the website is that you can mouse over a
word colored in blue and it will give you the English definition of that word. In this lesson I also
showed them how they can access specific grammar topics that they may have a question about.
News in slow French is a very neat website that promotes acquisition of an L2 in a nonthreatening way. Hearing the French spoken slowly motivates the students because they are able
to understand more and do not get so overwhelmed by the intensity of French spoken at native
speeds.
The second part of my lesson plan is based on a French home and garden television show
about getting your house sold. The first part of the lesson is fun for the students because they get
to draw their dream home, which they will then describe to a partner who will also draw what
they are describing. Students get motivated in doing an exercise like this because who does not
like to dream about what they would like their dream home to look like? Plus they get to use
crayons and markers and be as imaginative as they want. This part of my lesson shows that I
know how to get my students motivated and keep them engaged in the activity while speaking
French!
Once they finish drawing and describing their dream houses, they get to watch an excerpt
from the television show Maison vendre that means, house for sale. The point of this part of
the lesson is to get them to recognize as many vocabulary words that they have learned about the
home and selling it and to accustom their ear to the French language. Granted, this show is an
authentic show, meaning it was created for native French speakers, so the people on it are
speaking entirely too fast for my FRE 202 students to understand everything. Nevertheless that
is not the point. The point is for them to try to comprehend and notate as many French words
that they can. Another goal of this activity is to show my students one cultural aspect of the
French people with regards to what they consider home and how that compares to our American

view on house and home.