L’UTILISATION DU DOCUMENT AUTHENTIQUE (FILM ) DANS UNE CLASSE DU FLE

Abstract

The title of this study is “Using Authentic Document in French Teaching as a Foreign Language”. It was conducted in the context of teaching French as a foreign language in Sudan where authentic document is considered to be one of the teaching aids which may effectively contribute to the process of developing the student’s language abilities in listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. An authentic document can also play a significant role in providing students with new vocabulary if we properly select the type of document that agrees with our Muslim community. This study aimed at developing and improving the performance of French Language students with regard to comprehension, composition and speaking. The study also aimed at helping the students in understanding such type of educational aids. This study assumed three hypotheses as follows: - As a teaching aid, an authentic document can play a significant role in teaching French as a foreign language. - An authentic document may provide the students with new vocabulary which will in turn provide them the opportunity to build a good knowledge of language and thus they may benefit from that in speaking and composition. - Performance of students may improve after using an authentic document as a teaching aid. In order to prove the hypotheses of the study, the researcher used the descriptive analytic method after conducting two experiments with two samples of students where we compared the results obtained from the two experiments. The researcher followed up the performance of the students in comprehension and speaking after using an authentic document where we observed the following: - The performance of the students has clearly improved and that was evident through their fast understanding to the parts showed of the authentic document. - Using an authentic document as an educational aid can develop the teaching process of French language at Sudanese universities and schools. - This type of educational aids when repeatedly used will provide a good environment for the student to learn French language. V This study is divided into three chapters where the first chapter presents the theoretical framework in which the researcher discusses the educational curricula of teaching French Language. In the second chapter, the study handles the different types of teaching aids together with explaining the criteria of selecting them as well as explaining the ways of using them in teaching French as a foreign Language. While in the third chapter the study presents the analysis of the two experiments used in the study where it came clear that these teaching aids may play a significant role in the process of teaching French Language providing that authentic documents should properly be selected in a way that will agree with our educational objectives and religious values. Finally, this study has asserted the significance of this type of effective entertaining educational aids in the process of teaching French as a foreign language