Online French Language Training Program for Faculty Members @CHARUSAT University

15-Day Comprehensive French Language Course offered on online platform by I2IM amidst Lockdown

Considering the circumstances of lockdown as a window of
opportunity for self-development, the teachers of CHARUSAT University have kept
their spirit of learning high, with the bells on. During this period, Academy
of English, National, and Foreign Languages (AENFL) run by Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) at Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of
Management (I2IM), CHARUSAT, had organised a 15-DAY Comprehensive French
Language training program on Course – Ça y est, let’s learn French for the CHARUSAT
faculty members during the months of March and April.



Faculty Members from multiple disciplines like Engineering,
Pharmacy, Management studies, Applied Sciences, Medical Sciences, Management
Studies participated actively during the workshop. In this 30-hour French
Beginner’s Course, the participants learnt basic grammar, phonetic, linguistic,
cultural and communicative aspects of French Language in the form of
Self-introduction, greetings, short messages, daily usage conversations,
talking about profession and activities / hobbies, asking questions to seek
information, answer simple questions, write a postcard, fill out preliminary
forms, read and give directions, able to initiate communication and express
self during such conversations with the help of basic vocabulary.



The course was unfurled through direct and communicative
teaching through online platform, audio-video presentation, role play,
discussions and assignments. The online evaluation was also done in the
continuous mode as well as at the end of the course. On the successful
completion of the course, the participants were given the certificates.



“The University has been offering French Language course
under its Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) to the students, but here the
efforts were made to motivate faculty members to learn and speak French
language and at the same time to put to best use the lockdown time off campus
by discovering French culture”, said by Dr. Govind Dave, Dean, Faculty of
Management Studies & Principal, I2IM.



The institute is also planning to offer courses on German,
Chinese, and Spanish languages as a credit courses to the students along with
French Language in coming days. Moreover, on 7th March 2020, CHARUSAT
celebrated International Francophonie Day (Journée internationale de la
francophonie) by organizing a one-day French Language workshop Je parle
français – 1 (I Speak French – 1). Looking at the booming response at this
one-day workshop, the institute decided to cater on the same, in the period of
lockdown. So far 350+ students have already studied the French language as a
credit course at CHARUSAT.