Enjeux de l’enseignement du français aux arabophones :  le cas de l’Université de Jordanie à Amman

Shereen Kakish; Reem Madanat; Mousa Awwad

doi:10.13135/1825-263X/4346

Authors

Shereen Kakish University of Jordan
Reem Madanat University of Jordan
Mousa Awwad University of Jordan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/4346

Keywords:

foreign language learning, French, Arabic speakers, technology, teaching French as Foreign language, Affective approach

Abstract

This study examines the teaching of French to Jordanian Arabic-speaking people at the French department in the University of Jordan in Amman. The new technological tools used recently in the department offer promising perspectives and they prepare the department to offer some better targeted courses for French language students in Jordan. These innovating practices of teaching included in the project of the University of Jordan are dedicated to cultural and international openness. Still, assessing the needs of learners in academia is difficult to establish and to be clearly expressed once and for all. The questions that arise in this context are: Does technology limit the teacher’s role in the classroom? And how do affective factors influence the learning of a foreign language in the presence of technological tools and hybrid and distance learning? How to create with these new tools classes designed to arouse in the Arabic-speaking student a certain behaviour or activity? It is in this sense that we speak in general pedagogy of active methods, which designate all that a teacher can do to create and maintain in his students the maximum of interest and participation in class. Thus, this study will show that in the background, despite all the technological development in the field of language pedagogy, the affective dimension and the communicative approach must necessarily be added to the teaching materials of the teacher to make it more effective for language acquisition of the learner of French, especially the Arab native student. The teacher plays an essential emotional and human role in this learning process, whatever the teaching approach or tool used.

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Author Biographies

Shereen Kakish, University of Jordan

Shereen Kakish is an Associate Professor at the University of Jordan. She teaches French literature in the French Department at the Faculty of Foreign Languages since 2010. She is specialized in French literature of the twenty-first century. She completed her Ph.D. at Laval University – Canada. Her research fields include theanalysis of literary texts from different eras, theories of reading and fiction, narratology, characters-narrators in contemporary novels, history of French and Quebec literature and history of the French language. She has published so many articles in the field of contemporary French and francophone literature. Her current projects and articles focus on the “translation of literature.”

She can be reached at: s_kakish@ju.edu.jo

Reem Madanat, University of Jordan

Reem Madanat is a lecturer at the University of Jordan. She teaches French in the French department at the Faculty of Foreign Languages since 2005. She has taught different compulsory courses of the first and second year as well as some obligatory and optional courses from the third and fourth year during her work. She is specialized in the translation of the political terminology in the general and the specialized dictionaries. She completed her master degree at the University of Lyon II with a thesis entitled “La Terminologie Politique en langue et en discours.” Her research field also includes a comparative study of the technical terms and their translation in different dictionaries as well as various speeches and contexts. Her current project focuses on different phenomena in the linguistic studies.

She can be reached at: r.madanat@ju.edu.jo

Mousa Awwad, University of Jordan

Mousa Awwad is an assistant professor at the University of Jordan. He teaches French Language and French linguistics in the French department at the Faculty of Foreign Languages since 2018. He is specializied in lexicology and syntax. His fields of research are related to the lexical borrowing, lexical borrowing theories, neologism, language contact and syntax theories. He completed his Ph.D at Lyon 2 University – France with a thesis entitled: La confrontation au système de la langue française des emprunts lexicaux à l’arabe dans le domaine de la finance islamique : étude graphique, morphosyntaxique, morpholexicale, sémantique et syntaxique.

He can be reached at: mousa.awwad@ju.edu.jo

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