Oral competence of secondary school pupils learning French as a foreign language : Fun activities and motivation

The aim of this study is to determine how fun activities in class can influence the motivation and the oral competence of secondary school pupils learning French as a foreign language. This is done by asking 22 pupils belonging to the 8th and 9th grade through a survey, how they feel when they must talk French in class. They also get the opportunity to share what activities they feel help them to talk more and as a result, acquire better knowledge of the studied language. Simultaneously, an interview with three French teachers in Sweden allows us to better understand their point of view on this same oral competence and know more about the various activities they use to organise in class. The results show that the oral competence must be practiced on a regular basis and from the very beginning of the study of the foreign language. Pupils usually like fun activities to develop their competences, which is an important point because of the strong influence of motivation on scholar results and success

Oral competence of secondary school pupils learning French as a foreign language : Fun activities and motivation

The aim of this study is to determine how fun activities in class can influence the motivation and the oral competence of secondary school pupils learning French as a foreign language. This is done by asking 22 pupils belonging to the 8th and 9th grade through a survey, how they feel when they must talk French in class. They also get the opportunity to share what activities they feel help them to talk more and as a result, acquire better knowledge of the studied language. Simultaneously, an interview with three French teachers in Sweden allows us to better understand their point of view on this same oral competence and know more about the various activities they use to organise in class. The results show that the oral competence must be practiced on a regular basis and from the very beginning of the study of the foreign language. Pupils usually like fun activities to develop their competences, which is an important point because of the strong influence of motivation on scholar results and success

Education of children. : Child mistreatments: acomparison between two European countries, France and Sweden.

Violence against children is a common phenomenon that is spread all over the world and always existed through the centuries. The present work will define the different forms of violences that children are victims of, present the causes which lead to these types of adult behaviors and the consequences on the child. The situation of two countries of our interest will be compared: France and Sweden. One will go through their history in term of infant violence, the laws which contributed to develop the rights of children and the actual situation in both nations. A personal investigation will be included in the work to have direct answers from both a French public and a Swedish one. This will allow us to have an idea about the actual way of thinking in both countries. The problems that France as well as Sweden face to fight for better children care will be mentioned, such as the difficulties people or different institutions have to alert the specialized organisations on a case of child mistreatment. The aim of this work is to compare France and Sweden and see if the hypothesis that violence is still largely spread in France and almost disappeared in Sweden is true. By analysing all the points mentioned earlier, one will eventually confirm that both countries are in totally different places concerning child violence, Sweden being the first nation to forbid any form of violence on children and France being the last one on date. One will notice that French people need to change many different points of their system as well as their way of thinking, while Swedish people need to continue their efforts to fight for this topic