Pronunciation, literature and learning French as a foreign language with social media

Abstract

Literature can provide all kinds of teaching materials for learning pronunciation of French as a foreign language (FLE), but practice and research in this area are still very little developed. New tools and social media can reverse this trend by promoting the oral production of learners and by integrating effective and motivating teaching tasks. For several years we have been conducting research on the applications of new technologies to teaching / learning FLE at the University of León in Spain and we have developed two pioneering and complementary databases: one on literary resources and the other on students’ oral productions. We discuss in this article the French Literature Multimedia FLE project, an online audiovisual database on French literature for teaching and learning FLE and the Oral FLE Pronunciation project, an oral corpus of oral productions of Spanish learners of French as a foreign language.