Navigating a Bilingual World: The Journey of a Native English Speaker Teaching in France

Authors

  • Mathew Court Collège Sévigné Ecole Privée Paris Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34097/jeicom-7-3-4

Keywords:

pluralingualism, multilingualism, bilingual, language, learning, literature, native, speaker, study, culture, anglophone, middle school, collège, input hypothesis, output hypothesis, stephen krashen, merril swain

Abstract

Part 1: Crossing the channel: How I transitioned from teaching English, to native speakers, to teaching English to bilingual speakers.

Part 2: Growing Up: Joining the collège and learning how to teach LVA/ESL.

Part 3: Variety is the Spice of Life:  How my strategies have developed and inform the way I now teach or how does a 6è student who speaks no English become an effective English communicator by the end of collège?

Part 4: Looking to the future: Utilising AI in the language learning classroom.

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Published

2025-06-25

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2025): Fostering a plurilingual curriculum: from theory to practice [Special Issue]

Section

Special Issue June 2025