Kentucky Foreign Language Conference — Technology
Public Writing: French Grammar and Composition
Nathan Love
(http://people.wku.edu/nathan.love)
Western Kentucky University

French 320 French Grammar & Composition
F320 French Grammar and Composition is intended to provide students who wish to take advanced courses in French with a working knowledge of French grammar and sustained practice creating various French compositions.

bullet How to have grammar practiced and confirmed?
bullet How to carry out composition process?
bullet How to "correct" compositions?
bullet Can everyone learn, efficiently and without humiliation, from one another's mistakes?

If grammar practice can be made a collective process, the benefits will be general.
Similarly, if compositions can become more public, then not only do individuals stand to profit, but, so too, does the class as a whole.
Tools provided by simple technology:
(1) Interactive exercises that provide immediate confirmation and / or feedback.
(2) A composition scratch pad that provides useful writing help.
(3) A public composition correction tool and process to generalize benefits.

bullet Interactivités F320 French Grammar (1)
bullet Wiki, e.g., http://fren320.wikispaces.com/ (1) sort of ...
bullet Pour écrire (2) & (3)

EXAMPLES
bullet Interactivités F320 French Grammar
bullet devoirs pour le mardi 11 février
bullet le projet = l'examen final (de grammaire)