LE TANDEM LINGUISTIQUE: POUR UN ENCADREMENT DE L’APPRENTISSAGE AUTONOME
LANGUAGE TANDEM: FRAMING THE AUTONOMOUS LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: A complex teaching system is required for integrating language tandems in an academic study program that allows autonomous student learning as well as close teacher monitoring. The creation of an online platform facilitates the formation of tandem pairs. Adequate teaching support, including worksheets designed according to language proficiency levels motivates students and guides their work. Various documents can be used in order to facilitate the learning process. Thus, a “dossier” allows learners to keep a written record of their work at the same time providing teachers with information on student involvement and progress; a “synopsis” of each tandem meeting helps partners describe tandem learning, reflect on learning strategies and review newly introduced language items while questionnaires provide data on the quality and effectiveness of bilingual language immersion. On the one hand, observing and analyzing live or recorded tandem sessions as well as the student portfolios created during French-Romanian tandem meetings improve the learning process while on the other hand these activities constitute the foundation of research in the field of tandem language teaching, which should ideally be contextualized, coordinated and reflexive.

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