mercredi 26 mars 2008

Aimez-vous les films d'horreur? Disponible sur DVD cette semaine: ILS

André Ladousse to speak @ Univ of St. Thomas

Mr. André Ladousse, diplomat, cultural diversity specialist and former director general of the International Organization of Francophonie, visits Houston. Come & join him for:

 

Cultural Diversity: Ideas From The French Speaking World, on Wednesday March 26th at St Thomas University -5:00 pm

More info @ www.francophonie-texas.org

mercredi 19 mars 2008

Lone Star College-CyFair looking for a French instructor for CE courses

Lone Star College-CyFair (Barker Cypress, south of 290) is looking for an adjunct faculty member to teach short duration, non-credit, conversational French courses beginning in the fall of 2008. The courses only last for a few weeks, and would meet in the evenings, once or twice a week, depending on the instructor’s scheduling preferences. The continuing education courses are mostly for adult community members taking conversation French for personal enrichment. For this reason, we’re looking for an animated, dedicated teacher with native or near-native fluency with travel experience in the Francophone world to facilitate basic conversations in functional task-based situations using the Schaum’s Communicating in French series. Interested parties should contact Cynthia Maclin (Cynthia.k.maclin@lonestar.edu, 281.290.3983) or Chairidee Smith (Chairidee.l.smith@lonestar.edu, 281.290.3930) in our academic division office. As usual with external postings, DO NOT contact AATF-Houston officers with regards to this posting. AATF-Houston assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the information in this posting.

2682.09

mercredi 12 mars 2008

Jours fériés: mars & avril

Du site de l'Association CPF (Canadian Parents for French)...

La St. Patrick
Le Poisson d'avril
Le Lapin de Pâques

Collection numérique de la BNF

Le projet Gallica 2 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France est maintenant disponible en ligne. Cette importante collection numérique vous offre accès à environ 60 000 livres, 80 000 images libres de droits et des milliers de livres récents consultables via les e-distributeurs (accès libre ou sous des conditions).

lundi 3 mars 2008

Black Writers of la Francophonie

Looking for resources outside l'Hexagone to celebrate le mois de la Francophonie with your students? This month's newsletter of the National Capital Language Resource Center features an excellent article on Black Writers of the French Language.

samedi 1 mars 2008

Et oui, il est arrivé au mois de MARS!

le 6: baptême de Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, écrivain français (1619), Marguerite Yourcenar élue à l'Académie française (1980)
le 7: naissance de Joseph-Nicéphore Niepcé, inventeur français (1765), naissance de Maurice Ravel, compositeur français (1875), naissance de Georges Perec, écrivain français (1936)
le 9: naissance de Juliette Binoche, actrice française (1964)
le 12: fête nationale: Île Maurice, naissance de Patrick Chamoiseau, écrivain martiniquais (1953)
le 14: naissance du Prince Albert de Monaco (1958)
le 16: naissance d'Isabelle Huppert (1953)
le 17: mort de François de la Rochefoucault, écrivain français (1680), baccalauréat établi sous Napoléon I (1808)
le 18: naissance de Stéphane Mallarmé, poète français (1842), naissance de Luc Besson, réalisateur français (1959)
le 20: fête de l'indépendance: Tunisie
le 21: naissance de Joseph Fourier, mathématicien français (1768)
le 22: naissance de Marcel Marceau, mime français (1923)
le 26: naissance de Pierre Boulez, compositeur français (1925)
le 27: naissance d'Alfred de Vigny, poète français (1797), naissance du Baron Georges Haussmann, préfet français (1809)
le 29: naissance de Marcel Aymé, écrivain français (1902)
le 30: naissance de Paul Verlaine, poète français (1844), naissance de Vincent Van Gogh, peintre néerlandais (1853), naissance de Céline Dion, chanteuse québécoise (1968)
le 31: naissance de René Descartes, philosophe français (1596)

Qui sommes-nous?

We are the Houston Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF-Houston). The American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) was founded in 1927 and is the largest national association of French teachers in the world with nearly 10,000 members. Our members are French teachers at all levels and include approximately 3/4 secondary teachers and 1/4 post-secondary. We also have a growing number of French teachers in immersion settings and in the elementary grades. As a professional association, we seek to address the concerns of our members which include: promoting the study of languages in general and French in particular; facilitating the implementation of national and state standards in the classroom; improving the training of French teachers by encouraging minimum levels of language and cultural proficiency, and exposure to the French-speaking world through study abroad opportunities; creating opportunities and finding resources for practicing teachers to update their skills and improve their teaching; and, finally, encouraging the use of new technologies in the teaching of French and actively developing materials to support this use. Our regional representative to the national office is Dr. Jacqueline Thomas of Texas A&M University at Kingsville.

Officers of AATF-Houston

Roya Razavipour MCARTHUR, President
rrazavipour@gmail.com



Dore Sulistyo, Vice President
GUNDORE@sbcglobal.net



Johan P. Vergult, Grand Concours Director
Johan.Vergult@springbranchisd.com



Kathy KOCH, Secretary



Gerri MANLOVE, Treasurer
gembus@earthlink.net



Claude BOUTIN, Destination France Program Administrator
cgboutin@yahoo.com


Marci Pampe, Webmaster
mpampe@sbcglobal.net




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