Teaching French Literature Without a Book

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Nathan LeRoy Love
• Western Kentucky University
• KFLC 2013

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Readings online
• ? Much already available
• ? Select no more than what is needed
• ? Cost to students
• ? For my Introduction to French Literature
• same works available that I once had in a
  traditional print format
• ? The courses online syllabus connects to any
  number of course components
• ? Disadvantages? No critical apparatus,
  glossary, notes

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• PowerPoint on French versification
• ? one such link

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Interactive exercises

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Listening discerningly to readings online

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Student recordings of passages they read
  aloud

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Enriching literary appreciation with video
  (YouTube, Ina.fr, Dailymotion).

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Course Project.

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Teaching French Literature Without a Book

• Conclusion
• The use of readings online means confronting
  students with texts w/o aids (glossary, notes,
  introductions to author, work, historical
  background, in short any ancillary or critical
  apparatus).
• However, linking such aids as are deemed truly
  useful to the same site in which the readings are
  found outweighs that lack. Links to voice and
  image may even enhance the reading experience.