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> From: Carmela Garritano <grritano@h-net.msu.edu>
>
> Subject: FYI:Using African Film for Teaching French, English and
> Swahili
>
> African Film and Video for Teaching French, English, and Swahili
> Language and Literature
>
> African Film and Video for Teaching French, English, and Swahili
> Language and Literature is a workshop sponsored by the African Studies
> Center at Michigan State University (MSU) and Xavier University of
> Louisiana. We invite you to attend the workshop on Thursday, March 12
> - Saturday, March 14, 1998 at Xavier University of Louisiana in
> festive New Orleans.
>
> We are pleased to announce that there is no registration fee.
>
> An explosion in the number of stereotypical media images of Africa
> gives the average student a distorted perception of Africa. In
> addition,
> although Africa is the second largest continent in size and
> population, it is the most underrepresented of the world's regions and
> the
> least studied in American schools. For these reasons, African film
> offers
> educators a medium through which they can help students develop a more
> accurate understanding of the diverse and dynamic cultures of Africa
>
> The workshop is designed to strengthen and improve undergraduate
> instruction by providing strategies for incorporating high quality
> African film and video into undergraduate French, English, and
> Swahili language and literature instruction.
>
> This workshop builds on the continuing national service of the MSU
> African Media Program.
>
> Workshop participants will:
> view African film and video;
> attend presentations on the use of narrative and ethnographic film
> in French, English, and Swahili language and literature
> instruction,and
> receive curricular materials on using African film in undergraduate
> language and literature classrooms.
>
> This workshop originates from our belief that African film offers
> language students at all levels opportunities to see and hear French,
> English, and Swahili used in the context of African cultures. Most
> importantly,
> African film in the classroom gives students a sense of authentic
> language usage not easily conveyed in most instructional materials.
>
> African film provides a valuable resource for exposing language
> students
> to the rich and dynamic African cultures in which French, English, and
> Swahili speakers live.
>
> The incorporation of ethnographic and feature film into foreign
> language and literature instruction is not intended to replace aspects
> of pedagogy already in place, but to provide additional tools for
> language learning at
> introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels.
>
> Workshop activities include:
> a discussion of the pedagogical and practical issues surrounding
> the use of African film in language and literature instruction;
> concurrent sessions devoted to specific applications of African film
> in French, Swahili, and English courses;
> plenary sessions on African media for both Africanist and
> non-Africanist instructors of language and literature;
> film showings to provide participants with the opportunity to view
> African
> media.
>
> Workshop Speakers Include:
> Anthony Ciccone, Professor of French and Directot of the Center for
> Institutional and Professional Development, University of Wisconsin,
> Milwaukee
>
> Maureen Eke, Assistant Professor of English, Central Michigan
> University
>
> Lioba Moshi, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the
> African Language Program, University of Georgia
>
> Emmanuel Yewah, Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign
> Languages, Albion College
>
> On Thursday, participants will begin to register for the workshop at
> Xavier
> University at 1 p.m. The opening session will take place at 4 p.m. A
> reception will follow. Friday and Saturday sessions take place at
> Xavier University.
>
> Workshop participants will stay ay the Ramada Plaza Hotel in New
> Orleans's Garden District. Special workshop rate: $80 single; $89
> double.
>
> Participants must be registered with the hotel before February 1, 1998
> in
> order to qualify for this rate. Call the Ramada Plaza at
> 1-800-443-4675.
>
> If you would like more information on the workshop or if you would
> like to
> register for the workshop, please contact Carmela Garritano at
> garritan@pilot.msu.edu or John Metzler at metzler@pilot.msu.edu.
> Workshop participants must be registered with Michigan State
> University by February 1, 1998.
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