We should AIM to give more STATUS to being a teacher - Audrey Rousse-Malpat
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If you use vocabulary and grammar tests, you don't teach communicatively. Audrey Rousse-Malpat tells us why.
Audrey Rousse-Malpat is an assistant professor in second language acquisition at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is also an entrepreneur and leads a teacher training company called Project Frans specializing in usage-based pedagogies for French as second language. She hosts the "Je suis #profdeFLE" ("I am a French language teacher") podcast.
Her research focuses on the AIM method: the Accelerative Integrated Method. In our conversation, she argues why it's a method education should adopt.
In this episode, Audrey talks about:
thinking like a scientist
schools as factories
AIM (Accelerative Integrated Method) and how it works
Marry Poppins
structure-based teaching vs Dynamic usage
why teachers need to relinquish control
what went wrong with the communicative approach
tips for implementing AIM
multilingual approaches in higher education
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About Audrey Rousse-Malpat
Audrey Rousse-Malpat is an assistant professor in second language acquisition at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). She works on dynamic usage-based approaches in second language teaching and multilingual approaches in higher education. One of her favorite activities is inspiring vocations to become language teachers. She is also an entrepreneur and leads a teacher training company called Project Frans with her colleagues Wim Gombert and Janny Spreen. They specialize in training teachers to implement usage-based inspired pedagogies for French as a second language.
She completed her PhD in 2019 on the effects of an implicit Canadian teaching method called AIM on the oral and written development of French learners in high schools. She compared it with an explicit teaching program and analyzed their differential effects on complexity, accuracy, and fluency over three years of instruction for 229 learners. In 2022, she created the podcast "Je suis #profdeFLE" (translated to "I am a French language teacher"), in which she invites academics to discuss their research topics in French and what the findings mean for teaching practice (very much inspired by the Teacher Talking Time podcast! She is a fan).
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