A students elementary French class portfolio: includes a Twitter (writing) assignment, an extemporaneous speech (Skype) recording with another student, a video on La Belgique, and an ad promoting a French product.
Think the 5 C’s!. The student provides evidence of how his language studies are integrally connected to his study of History as well as Women and Gender Studies.
See the reflection.
Course objectives:
Go to sample: Spanish, 331 and Spanish 331, sec 2
Instructor: M. Geoffron-Vinci Lafayette College
Mid-term project: a student business portfolio
Objectives: communicative competence (presentational (speaking and media composition), use of authentic materials
Instructor: M. Lamb-Faffelberger Lafayette College
Objective: to add a new communicative competencies to a course curriculum that previously only required an reading and writing component.
Sample one : students were asked to professionally subtitle segments of a French film (listening)
Sample two: students were asked to interview a French students on their opinion of the American elections and then subtitle the segment for the local American TV station. Quite serendipitously, one of the American students was in turn asked to be interviewed by his French counterpart, who was a communications major; the interview was run on Radio France and published on their website. (listening, interpersonal modes of communication)
Matt was an engineering major, Spanish minor. He is currently working for an international chemical firm in Pennsylvania. He has exported his original ePortfolio from Lafayette’s servers and is continuing to build it in his current job.
Please see here his self-reflections on his work in Spanish while at Lafayette.
Instructor: M. Geoffrion-Vinci Lafayette College
This is work done in an independent study with the objective of composing in multimedia using a number of communicative skills with a cross-disciplinary focus on the student’s major.
Instructor: T. Rom Lafayette College
A senior project in German describing the different learning experiences in this seminar course: intensive writing, discussions, web conferencing with students at a German university studying politics. This is a scaffolded assignment where students send in a written draft and then compose using images and video clips from the semester as well as reflect on and read from texts studied. Targeting all 5 communicative modes and connections.
Instructor: M. Lamb-Faffelberger
Lafayette College