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Following the filmed lessons, the classroom teacher drills and reviews the material presented by Mme. Anne Slack. Within the films, music is used to introduce vocabulanj in songs, maintain the child's interest. "PARLO^iS FRANCAIS" goes a step beyond the language laboratory. The films provide close-up views of the teachers mouth so she demonstrates proper formation of vowels and consonants with her teeth, lips, and tongue. Thus, as this girl is doing, an authentic French accent is developed.
instruction in three buildings, using our regular classroom teachers who lacked sufficient background in a language, without the services of a qualified FLES consultant?
It was at this point that we turned to the very basis of our need for such a program— modem technology. Through a system of modem audiovisual techniques, we sought the possible solution to our problem. After investigating the various audiovisual approaches to teaching a foreign language, we decided to use the filmed course in conversational French, "Parlous Frangais.
This system of instruction, using a multi-sensory approach, produced by the Heath de Rochemont Corporation of Boston, was an outgrowth of a most successful ETV program of the same name, created by the Modern Language Project of Boston and first televised in 1959 on the "21 Inch Classroom" at WGBH-TV in Boston. After the videotapes of this program had been used successfully in classrooms in the Boston area for two years, the "feed-back" from users of the course was studied, revisions were made in the instruction where indicated, and the entire series of 60 lessons was then filmed so it would be available for classroom projection as well as TV showings. Thus, by using "Parlous Fran^ais," we availed ourselves of a new
course, but one that had been completely tested and proven before it was placed on film.
This system of instruction is a complete course in conversational French. The basic instruction, provided by native French teacher Mme Anne Slack, is contained in 60 fifteen minute films, two of which are presented each week during a school year.
Follow-up materials for the classroom teacher's use consist of 40 records for student practice and drill, student activities books, and an excellent teachers guide. Other materials available are a series of 8 teacher training films for pronunciation and technique and 10 teacher practice and drill recordings. To further assist the classroom teacher and administrator in this operation, a qualified FLES consultant is made available to any school using the program.
Because we were experimenting in this new area, we hesitated to invest the sum of money necessary to purchase the complete film package.
Fortunately other people in education were not so skeptical. The directors of the New York State Regents' Educational Television Project felt that "Parlons Franfais" met a need in education and decided to televise the films over their open circuit broadcast (through the facilities of WPIX-TV, Channel 11 ) for the schools of the metropolitan area of New York City, which
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