LES OPINIONS DES ETUDIANTS SUR LE COURS « EVALUATION ET ADAPTATION DE MATERIELS PEDAGOGIQUES »
STUDENT PERCEPTIONS ON THE MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION COURSE

Summary/Abstract: The primary objective of the foreign language departments of education faculties is to prepare their students to teach the foreign language effectively. The students not only need to have theoretical courses but also some courses that they can put into practice. To provide that need education faculties have school observation and teaching practice courses in their educational programs. Those courses are limited to only one semester and may not be very sufficient to prepare those students to their future professions. Before actual teaching and practicum, students need to have some application courses to apply their methodological knowledge. Learning by doing is one of the methods students can apply their theoretical knowledge into practice. In this study, learning by doing method was used to achieve this goal. This is a single group post-test study design in which students in the French department were asked to prepare worksheets using authentic materials in the Material Evaluation and Adaptation course. It took 12 weeks, 3 hourperiod for each week. The theoretical part took 4 weeks, and the practical activities were carried out during the following 8 weeks. In order to measure the effects of learning by doing method, students were administered a questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. The results of the study revealed improvements in students’ skills in preparing a French language lesson as well as developments in their selfconfidence. The students were questioned to find out the difficulties that they had experienced. The result of this questioning reveals that learning by doing eliminated lots of difficulties to a great extent but still some of the difficulties remained as unsolved.

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