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The portrait model seems relevant to making a place audible, or even to making a place sound, a format that guides both the creation and the listening of sound works dedicated to specific territories. The notion appeals to the diversity of ways of discovering the audible world, as well as to the singularity of the entities we encounter or represent in it.
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During the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC) pre-conference in Montreal in 2024, I shared my joyful and transformative experiences visiting in Europe, during a sabbatical year 2022-2023, and how these have contributed to fulfilment and joy in my teaching (and life) as a professor of Minority Language Education (French) in Saskatchewan. During my sabbatical year, I focused on slowing down to live each day open to possibilities. Walking and slowness offered me the chance to learn, reflect and to live in the present moment, thus facilitating a stronger connection to the earth, to myself, and to all my relations, human and more than human (Donald, 2023; Judson, 2019; Springgay & Truman, 2018. I was immersed in diverse “linguistic landscapes” (Araújo e Sá, Carinhos & Melo-Pfeifer, 2022) and communities where I found a sense of community and belonging. While spending a year walking, travelling and reflecting in various locations throughout France and Belgium, and many neighbouring countries, I took time to appreciate beauty in nature and in life and how everything is interconnected on this planet, enabling me to feel a stronger connection to the earth which has inspired me to share these experiences with my students. Through walking and many enriching encounters, taking the time to reflect allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of creative approaches to pedagogy which value the richness of linguistic and cultural diversity. By sharing my experience, I hope to shed light on the value of slowness, and the importance of having an open mind in order to “live poetically” (Leggo, 2005) and fully appreciate the beauty and diversity of this world.
Keywords: épanouissement, lenteur, voyages, marche, paysages linguistiques, littérature de jeunesse, plurilinguisme, joie
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Authentic materials allow the foreign language teacher to help his/her students get in contact with the target language and culture. That’s why authentic materials should be used correctly with the help of an appropriated treatment in the aim of being more effective and better-perceived as authentic by the learners. In this article, we discuss the use of authentic materials in foreign language classrooms and more specifically in French foreign language classroom. Thus, after pointing out what an authentic material is and discussing the importance of its use in teaching and learning of languages, we have prepared a teaching material of speaking/listening in French to Turkish students. The type of the authentic material was a radio program.
Keywords: authentic material, document authentique, teaching/learning, enseignement/apprentissage, French foreign language, français langue étrangère