As of last September I am not only a teacher but a fully-signed up, fifty-nine-year-old, doctoral student under the supervision of Lily Robert-Foley. On the 13th January 2025 a new remote course based on writing language memoirs opens for second-year undergraduates at Paul Valéry University. Here is the official résumé of the thesis. The working…
It is with great pleasure that I publish the links to this year’s student blogs. They are remarkable individual and collective journeys into creativity and the multi-faceted nature of culture. Enjoy their delicious shared moments. Take hope from their energy and optimism and generosity. And don’t hesitate to join in the conversations. Alibabatheater Another Way…
The clocks have moved forward, curfew in France has been pushed back to seven o’clock in the evening and spring stirs. In spite of everything students continue to study and teachers to teach. This year’s 16 collaborative blogs written by second-year students are proof that enthusiam and perserverance and creativity continue to flourish. I would…
Radio silence since September! Did I lose my voice? What happened? Well here’s what happened. I fumbled my way, masked and panting through September. Quite often breathless and sometimes even dizzy as I rushed from classroom to classroom. I became expert at mad gesticulating to make up for mumbling in a foreign language. Only muffled…
Online real-time written conversations in English. A facet of digital literacy. As explained in the previous post on this subject, we have been using online chats with our third-year undergraduates as a means of replacing classroom conversation workshops during lockdown. In the last week of online chatting, I took the opportunity of informally asking students…