When studying another language, the next best thing to being immersed in the culture is to be immersed in its media.
That's why UO French professor Catherine Wiebe places extra emphasis on using multimedia tools in her classroom. Over the past two years, Wiebe has enhanced the French department's curriculum by building a vast virtual library stocked with hundreds of French TV news clips, music videos, photos of France, YouTube videos and MP3 files of French songs and radio programs.
Wiebe, a Paris native, found time and help to master software for editing photos, audio and video clips and to enrich her classes' online sites. Her goal has been to move language learning beyond the textbook and bring the French language to life, enriching each student's experience by exposing them to a variety of real-life French idioms, diction and culture.
Her students have joined in as well, creating their own multimedia material including videos of French language skits and TV-news-style shows, which they share with their classmates online.
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