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Nov 2024
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If you use vocabulary and grammar tests, you don't teach communicatively.  Audrey Rousse-Malpat tells us why. 

Audrey Rousse-Malpat is an assistant professor in second language acquisition at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is also an entrepreneur and leads a teacher training company called Project Frans specializing in usage-based pedagogies for French as second language. She hosts the "Je suis #profdeFLE" ("I am a French language teacher") podcast. 

Her research focuses on the AIM method: the Accelerative Integrated Method. In our conversation, she argues why it's a method education should adopt.

In our conversation, Audrey talks about:

  • thinking like a scientist
  • schools as factories
  • AIM (Accelerative Integrated Method) and how it works
  • feeling like the Marry Poppins of error correction 
  • structure-based teaching vs Dynamic usage
  • why teachers need to relinquish control
  • what went wrong with the communicative approach
  • tips for implementing AIM
  • multilingual approaches in higher education 

For more from Audrey Rousse-Malpat:

1. Project Frans 

2. Connect on LinkedIn

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