BU to Host French for Professions Workshop
This coming May, BU will host a workshop on French for Professional Purposes. The workshop is being organized in cooperation with the Embassy of France in the United States and the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Designed by the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the course is a hands-on training in curriculum and teacher preparation for French for Business classes and is structured as follows:
- Distinguishing the specificities of FLE (Français Langue Etrangère – French as a Foreign Language) and FOS (Français sur Objectifs Spécifiques – French for Specific Purposes);
- Implementing FOS;
- Designing a framework for a French for Business courses;
- Designing educational activities using authentic documents;
- Assessing students in French for Business.
The workshop will be partially online and partially in-person. Registration is limited to 20 participants.