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Explorations and Encounters in FRENCH Edit Ed by JEaN FoRNasiERo aNd ColEttE MRowa-HopkiNs French Studies Collection Explorations and Encounters in French Explorations and Encounters in FRENCH Edit Ed by JEaN FoRNasiERo aNd ColEttE MRowa-HopkiNs selected Essays from the inaugural Conference of the Federation of associations of teachers of French in australia published in adelaide by University of adelaide press barr smith library The University ofa delaide south australia 5005 [email protected] www.adelaide.edu.au/press The University of adelaide press publishes externally refereed scholarly books by staff of the Uni- versity of adelaide. it aims to maximise the accessibility to its best research by publishing works through the internet as free downloads and as high quality printed volumes on demand. 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Subject Keywords: French literature - French History - French language - language teaching - pedagogy For the full Cataloguing-in-publication data please contact National library of australia: [email protected] isbN 978-0-9806723-2-9 (electronic) isbN 978-0-9806723-3-6 (paperback) text design: Céline lawrence Cover design: Chris tonkin, John Emerson Map by william palmer, plate 1, A New and Elegant Short Atlas, london, laurie & whittle, 1813- 1814, Map RM 28 © National library of australia paperback copy printed and bound by Griffin press, south australia Contents Foreword and acknowledgements 7 Expressions of support 13 Editors’ Note 17 Encountering French and the French 19 Explorations and Encounters: on the Uses of a Theme 21 Jean Fornasiero and Colette Mrowa-Hopkins le choc des discours dans la presse française: de la crise des banlieues à celle des universités (novembre 2005, mars 2006) 35 Sophie Moirand Comment j’ai appris la littérature: morceaux choisis d’une éducation 77 Françoise Grauby Historical Explorations 97 The inaugural Frank Horner lecture 99 writing and Rewriting the baudin scientific Expedition to the southern Hemisphere, 1800-1804 103 Margaret Sankey doing it by the book: breaking the Reputation of Nicolas baudin 135 Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby 5 Intercultural Encounters 165 Exploration of the “other”: teaching and learning socio-pragmatic Competence through French Film Extracts 167 Colette Mrowa-Hopkins Visions and Revisions: language learning for Cultural Mediation 195 Barbara Hanna & Alicia Toohey Explorations in the Classroom 215 les tiCE: de nouveaux outils pédagogiques 217 Béátrice Atherton & Iwona Czaplinski promoting Collaborative learning with IdeaNet: a Francophone literature Case study 227 Bonnie Thomas délier la langue d’étudiants “captifs”: enjeux, écueils et fortunes d’un cours d’expression orale à l’université 251 Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan Table of Illustrations 265 Appendix 1: Conference History 267 p resident’s Note 267 The Conference programme 269 The public lecture series 277 The French Connection Adelaide 2006 The Exhibition: a French australia? almost! 287 Noelene Bloomfield presenters and abstracts 297 Appendix 2: Contents of the CD-ROM 319 Foreword and acknowledgements The Federation ofa ssociations of teachers of French in australia is a young federation whose genesis goes back to 1996. australia had active associa- tions of teachers of French in every state but with relatively little contact between them, other than the exchange of newsletters. There was, however, a national link amongst the universities whose association, the australian society of French studies (asFs), held an annual conference. 1996 saw the world Congress of the Fédération internationale des professeurs de Français (FipF) in tokyo. at that time, the south australian French teachers association was a member of the FipF. although saFTA only represented south australia, it was perceived on the international scene to be the voice of teachers of French in australia. Elected president, in tokyo, of the Commission asie-pacifiqueof the FipF, i had the pleasure of attending – until the next world congress in 2000 in paris – the annual meetings of the Conseil d’administration of the FipF. at these council meetings, it became apparent that the preferred mode of operation was a national body to represent the interests of French teaching in each country, as it made communication much easier. Thus the idea took shape; i contacted all associations of teachers of French in the states of australia to launch the concept of an affiliation. 7 Explorations and Encounters in French Each association would continue to exist, keep its independence, but gain the solidarity of being a national body and achieve a national profile. The personnel of the French Embassy in Canberra warmed to the idea and facilitated several meetings of presidents of associations. an affilia- tion or federation would create contact between associations, the sharing of initiatives and ideas would be possible and a national conference could be envisaged. Theas Fs was also involved in the negotiations to make a feder- ation truly representative of all levels of the teaching of French in australia. in 2003, the Federation was born after a meeting convened by the attaché linguistique of the French Embassy, Jean poncet, in Melbourne. Christopher Thorburn, president of the south australian French teachers association, was elected president of the founding committee. in 2004, at the meeting convened in adelaide to ratify the FatFa constitution, and to conduct the elections of the newly constituted federation, i became the president and pursued the idea of our inaugural national conference. a dynamic conference committee, made up largely from members of the committee of saFTA, and incorporating interstate members of FatFa, acknowledged in this publication, met regularly to create the programme. it was a rewarding pleasure to work with such committed colleagues. The success of the conference in July 2006 was due to their efforts and, par- ticularly, to the management of the conference at the University of adelaide by Jean Fornasiero. and so was born the FatFa inaugural Conference: “Exploration et Rencontres”, which took place on the 8 and 9 July 2006. The two days of the aF tFa conference were part of The French Con- nection, an event which incorporated the conferences of the asFs and the George Rudé seminar in French History and Civilization, which were also held at the University of adelaide, and a number of public lectures held at different cultural institutions on Northt errace, in a week of activities with a truly French focus. The aF tFa conference began on the Friday evening, 7 July, with a cocktail at the Hilton Hotel, where guests were entertained by a live jazz 8 Foreword and acknowledgememts band coordinated by Max Franklin. we were further entertained at the Conference dinner on 9 July at the University of adelaide’s National wine Centre by two stalwarts of French song in south australia, Chris simpson (member of the organizing committee) and andrew Mckenzie, who com- bined their talents with those of susie Newman and Jess taylor. besides such successful social events, we had two highly productive days during which we reflected on many aspects of the teaching of French and French-speaking culture. sophie Moirand’s paper on the discourse used by the press when reporting on violent events and on its role in con- structing our collective memory was powerful. The elegant and humorous narrative by François Grauby, novelist and academic, of her own and her students’ initiation into French literature reminded us of the pivotal place of culture in the teaching of language. Rémy porquier shared with us his extensive reflections on the place of grammar in real communication and on the European Framework for languages. laurent delahousse, Consul Général de France en australie, dealt with the European context of recent French legislation relative to the problems of the “banlieue” and also par- ticipated in a debate with the Hon. Michael atkinson, attorney General and Minister for Justice and Multicultural affairs, sa Government, on Multiculturalism and Nation-building. whilst the “rencontres” theme of the conference was a