EXTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN FRENCH: A RESPONSE TO CHANGING STUDENT INTEREST
EXTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN FRENCH: A RESPONSE TO CHANGING STUDENT INTEREST

Summary/Abstract: With decreases in both funding to and enrollments in the humanities at many institutions, coupled with growing concern about student employability and job-readiness after college, many programs are looking to experiential learning for answers. While service-learning has been one option for those seeking to develop authentic and meaningful learning experiences that reach beyond the walls of the tower, internships within the foreign language curriculum are less common. The present article shares one program’s efforts to offer a modified post-secondary internship experience to students of French. A description of the experience, renamed an externship, as well as student feedback, are shared as a model for others looking to start small-scale experiential learning opportunities in post-secondary foreign language study.

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