Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content

Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching

“…Also included in the archive are thousands of individual web pages that represent diff erent, often contradictory perspectives within contemporary French society. In their recent book on FL teaching and curriculum development, Bourns et al (2020) discuss how the French language program at Harvard mines the archival content to enrich its language courses. One of the many activities the authors discuss is a social media exercise that obliges students to analyze a set of Twitter hashtags, such as #Jesuischarlie (#Iamcharlie) #Jenesuispascharlie (#Iamnotcharlie)…”

“…As part of this exercise, students examine and categorize the associated tweets and images. According to Bourns et al (2020), this exercise is part of a longer lesson that carefully guides students to understand the diversity of viewpoints surrounding the 2015 terrorist attacks.…”