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Teaching French Literature Without a Book. Nathan LeRoy Love Western Kentucky University KFLC 2013. Readings online: ● Much already available ● Select no more than what is needed ● Cost to students ● For my Introduction to French Literature
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Teaching French Literature Without a Book • Nathan LeRoy Love • Western Kentucky University • KFLC 2013
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 course’s online syllabus connects to any number of course components ● Disadvantages? No critical apparatus, glossary, notes Teaching French Literature Without a Book
PowerPoint on French versification ● one such link: Teaching French Literature Without a Book
Interactive exercises Teaching French Literature Without a Book
Listening discerningly to readings online Teaching French Literature Without a Book
Student recordings of passages they read aloud Teaching French Literature Without a Book
Enriching literary appreciation with video (YouTube, Ina.fr, Dailymotion). Teaching French Literature Without a Book
Course Project. 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. Teaching French Literature Without a Book