DESPREZ MICHAEL

In order to give students better access to documents in French language, the following points have been adopted\n1) Questionnaires given in French \n2) working document taken from highschool documents\n3) Answers expected to be given also in French (this applied to courses of the 2second- History and Culture and the 3 third years - French literature)

The assessment of the students activity by the professor is focused on three points\n1) assessment of attendance: student attendance is checked at each course. Three injutifiable absence lead to a non-attendance grade, wich is taken up to 40% of the final grade\n2) assessment of active participation: in the classroom, as often as possible, collective work is given by the professor (questions to fill, prints)

Basic problem of recent education is to face student's large passivity in most of the tasks, and lack of initiative. A set of educationnal measures are tested, namelly:\n1) Reflexive rather than automatic (i.e. yes/no type) answers to questionnaires\n2) incentive to ask the student to give more often is own point fo view

Problem to education is very often concern with the habit of student's cramming, which is a failure concerning long-term gains. A set of measure is experienced, namelly\n1) very regular test (one every 10 days)\n2) short but complete revision (10%of the test )on previous point and on previous test \n3) occasionnal "surprise" tests

Language learning is based on a relationship of trust and disponibility between students and professor. To adress this point, the following as been experienced\n1) regular questions to the student, on a individual basis\n2) encitement to contact the professor when the student has the feeling of not mastering a particular point\n3) Frequent (twice a term) anonymous, free questionnaire asked to the student on the averall evaluation of the course \n4) Encouragement and also a clear explanation of the aims of the course at each state of the academic year, especially regarding the work already done

Problem: due to the increase use of computer device (screen, mails etc..) concentration power in students had failed dramatically. Spped had replaced intelligence (namelly, the capacities to treat, synthetize and criticize outputs). In order to adress the difficulty, the following steps have been taken: \n1) grammatical analysis, in translation classes, of phrases before starting the translation \n2) as often as possible, asking the students to write in ballpen rather than by computer.