This is the last day for sending post for this competition. I was quite upset to accept the fact that there won’t be any writing about those innovations happening in our little Alliance Française de Chittagong. Then I felt it’s a great initiative to do something big in life, and I will continue this till end. I am grateful to everyone who arranged such a wonderful competition. And through this competition I have learned so much about AFC and other people associated with it those I was totally unaware of. If I be honest, it’s a great personal experience of my life.
As it happen to be the last post only for this competition and I got many things to tell. Unfortunately, due to time constraint i can't talk about all of them now. So far I have told about some painting and musical events, but I forgot to mention about photo exhibitions and workshops which held regularly in AFC premises. So i picked up a famous exhibition which was organized recently by AFC.
Last December we had famous ANNE GARDE visiting Alliance Française de Chittagong. She I an internationally renowned photographer for works on architecture ( Indian palaces, lido, Niemeyer, Bordeaux, Paris etc). Moreover, she has added some significant innovation in the field of contemporary photo representation. Plus, she has hundreds of articles, exhibitions and books at her credit.
She was here to cover up the main life line of the city and to compose the nature of this city where change has little effect only. To pursue her energetic and demanding vision she conducted a workshop which held in Alliance Française de Chittagong in mid January 09. She worked with a bunch of photographers form photobank organization. Throughout the year they worked on it which result in the “Chittagong lifelines of city”, a creative exhibition representing a certain sense of the uniqueness of this city. I was lucky to talk one of her student Md. Didarul Alam Chowdhury , He told me how thrilling that workshop was. As he said,” we have learned so many things previously which was ignored or wasn’t a important concern for us”. He added” during her work on ‘Navire Night’, I worked with her, her direction to the subject was not good, it was excellent”. That photo exhibition held between 20th and 24th December, I was present there to view her work. I liked all of them, because each and every photo contains something special. Although at first glance those photos may appear too simplistic, but, if someone sees them from inside he can sense the the beauty of this workaholic city. It was really a wonderful exhibition and many gathered to view her excellent work.
Alliance Française de Chittagong arranges this type of event such as workshop to provide opportunity and transfer the excellence of European art and culture to this part of the world. “Chittagong Lifeline of a city” was an excellent orientation of that purpose.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Road to Quality Education
Alliance Française de Chittagong always tried to provide its students with quality education ever since it started teaching the French in Chittagong. Past two years I have found no difference to that commitment. Students are thought through their utmost care and unique teaching methods. Teachers are continuously upgraded to deliver the best of their best. I have even talked to my teachers about the process of continuous up gradation. Today I’m going t talk about every ins and outs of their teaching method and our learning process and changes that has been made.
From students point of view we see lots of changes in recent time mostly in text book and orientation of those material in the class. For example, newly introduced Neveux Taxi focused on tapping students’ response in more interactive way what studio 100 lacked of, in fact, for the most part. It was like being bored in the class unless your instructor trying to engage your self into something special. I can still remember our prior teacher M. Asraf as hilarious person, most of the time he caught our attention with humor, just making sure we weren't sleeping while reading studio 100. I think I have done enough criticism of studio 100, I hope whoever wrote that book will not read my blog.
Let’s move on to teachers’ point of view. Teachers in AFC get continuous training at home and abroad by both local and international trainer throughout the year. This is due to develop their skill and approach for teaching students of AFC. These training programs has been developed through a process of scientific research and wide consultation, which provide a practical tool for teachers by setting clear standards to be attained at successive stages of learning and for evaluating outcomes in an internationally comparable method.
And that method is called Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The CEFR has built up for course designers, textbook writers, testers, teachers and teacher trainers , indeed to all who are directly involved in language teaching and testing. It facilitates a clear definition of teaching and learning objectives and methods and provides the necessary tools for assessment of proficiency.
Training for teachers categorized into different level, as I said earlier, locally given trainings are for full fledged instructor are often jointly coordinated by AFD and AFC. But, most of the time newly recruited teachers are initially trained in AFD, then sent to their local teaching center. Our experienced teachers sometimes sent to France to receive higher level training in French language. Last year after completing such training from France our instructor M. Asraf and M. Mahfuj shared their view with me. According to them” it was a huge experience first of all, and then they were taught different skills and techniques to deal with student more friendly and playful way”.
Our most honorable teacher both M. Asish Sen and DR. Gurupada Chakraborty recently went to France once again for getting higher training to discover new methods to provide best teaching to the students of Chittagong. M. Asish Sen stayed from 15th to 28th November and M Gurupada Chakraborty stayed between 9th and 18th December. Both of them went to CAVILAM in Vichy, a training center for French teachers, where they met other teachers came from different parts of the world. It was jointly organized in cooperation among AFC, French Embassy in Dhaka, EGIDE and CAVILAM. That training program was concentrating on to extend the use of modern teaching material such as TV, drama, songs etc apart form book in the class. Hope to see them teaching us with more joyous manner then ever.
From students point of view we see lots of changes in recent time mostly in text book and orientation of those material in the class. For example, newly introduced Neveux Taxi focused on tapping students’ response in more interactive way what studio 100 lacked of, in fact, for the most part. It was like being bored in the class unless your instructor trying to engage your self into something special. I can still remember our prior teacher M. Asraf as hilarious person, most of the time he caught our attention with humor, just making sure we weren't sleeping while reading studio 100. I think I have done enough criticism of studio 100, I hope whoever wrote that book will not read my blog.
Let’s move on to teachers’ point of view. Teachers in AFC get continuous training at home and abroad by both local and international trainer throughout the year. This is due to develop their skill and approach for teaching students of AFC. These training programs has been developed through a process of scientific research and wide consultation, which provide a practical tool for teachers by setting clear standards to be attained at successive stages of learning and for evaluating outcomes in an internationally comparable method.
And that method is called Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The CEFR has built up for course designers, textbook writers, testers, teachers and teacher trainers , indeed to all who are directly involved in language teaching and testing. It facilitates a clear definition of teaching and learning objectives and methods and provides the necessary tools for assessment of proficiency.
Training for teachers categorized into different level, as I said earlier, locally given trainings are for full fledged instructor are often jointly coordinated by AFD and AFC. But, most of the time newly recruited teachers are initially trained in AFD, then sent to their local teaching center. Our experienced teachers sometimes sent to France to receive higher level training in French language. Last year after completing such training from France our instructor M. Asraf and M. Mahfuj shared their view with me. According to them” it was a huge experience first of all, and then they were taught different skills and techniques to deal with student more friendly and playful way”.
Our most honorable teacher both M. Asish Sen and DR. Gurupada Chakraborty recently went to France once again for getting higher training to discover new methods to provide best teaching to the students of Chittagong. M. Asish Sen stayed from 15th to 28th November and M Gurupada Chakraborty stayed between 9th and 18th December. Both of them went to CAVILAM in Vichy, a training center for French teachers, where they met other teachers came from different parts of the world. It was jointly organized in cooperation among AFC, French Embassy in Dhaka, EGIDE and CAVILAM. That training program was concentrating on to extend the use of modern teaching material such as TV, drama, songs etc apart form book in the class. Hope to see them teaching us with more joyous manner then ever.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Fête de la francophonie 2010 in AFC
Alliance Française de Chittagong has celebrated 40th anniversary of creation International organization of Francophonie. It is the “FETE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE”, namely festival of francophone we celebrated this year. As we know, French is the second most studied language after English and this language is spoken in the five continents. The festival of Francophonie is a yearly event which is celebrated all over the world. This is the occasion for French speakers and learners to pay homage to the beauty and diversity of the French language and to reaffirm the faith in common values. Bangladesh is not a francophone country even though; celebration of Francophonie celebrated here with lots of joy and enthusiasm.
Let get back to history, it is French geographer Onésime Reclus, brother of Élisée Reclus, coined the word Francophonie in 1880 to refer to the community of people and countries using the French language. Francophonie was then created a second time by Léopold Sédar Senghor, founder of the Négritude movement, in the review esprit in 1962, who assimilated it into humanism.
The modern organization was formed in 1970, with vision to establish égalité, complémentarité, solidarité ("equality, complementarity, and solidarity"), referring to France's motto. Started as a small club of northern French-speaking countries, the Francophonie has since evolved into a global organization whose numerous branches cooperate with its member states in the fields of culture, science, economy, justice, and peace.
AFC celebrates this day by holding the same motto of equality, complementarity, and solidarity. In AFC, we actually celebrate the festival through the month. This year we have lots of fun. We celebrated this year’s festival by watching movies, singing music, joining quiz competition and doing so other things.
The formal program arranged between 28th and 30th march. On the 28th we had the French language film festival. We watched two movies that day, started with Father and Guns, (1H47), by Emile Gaudreault and then Maman est chez le coiffeur, (1h37), by Léa Pool. Next day, the program started from 4.00 p.m. Hélène Ringot, Madam Anne Tual and our director M. Dr. Samuel Berthet; each gave a speech about opportunities in French speaking world and talked about higher studies in France. Our cultural program started form 5 p.m, both students and teachers performed equally in cultural part. Students from Little Jewels School, William Carry Academy performed music. Then some individual students performed music, followed by poem recitation by teachers. Then we had a fantastic drama, “Nous sommes tous d’œuvres d’art“performed by the mixed group of B2 and C1 level students, which was directed by Madam Anne Tual.
The following day, we had prize giving ceremony for quiz participants. Which followed by two films from Vietnam, I liked both the movies. Finally our Froncophonie celebration came to an end, every one of us thanked our event organizer M. Dr. Gurupada Chakrabarti and M. Dr. Samuel Berthet. It was all breliently done.
Thus, through this event AFC has been building up an interesting relationship of cultural exchange that strengthen communication and contacts between Bangladesh and Froncophonie countries
Let get back to history, it is French geographer Onésime Reclus, brother of Élisée Reclus, coined the word Francophonie in 1880 to refer to the community of people and countries using the French language. Francophonie was then created a second time by Léopold Sédar Senghor, founder of the Négritude movement, in the review esprit in 1962, who assimilated it into humanism.
The modern organization was formed in 1970, with vision to establish égalité, complémentarité, solidarité ("equality, complementarity, and solidarity"), referring to France's motto. Started as a small club of northern French-speaking countries, the Francophonie has since evolved into a global organization whose numerous branches cooperate with its member states in the fields of culture, science, economy, justice, and peace.
AFC celebrates this day by holding the same motto of equality, complementarity, and solidarity. In AFC, we actually celebrate the festival through the month. This year we have lots of fun. We celebrated this year’s festival by watching movies, singing music, joining quiz competition and doing so other things.
The formal program arranged between 28th and 30th march. On the 28th we had the French language film festival. We watched two movies that day, started with Father and Guns, (1H47), by Emile Gaudreault and then Maman est chez le coiffeur, (1h37), by Léa Pool. Next day, the program started from 4.00 p.m. Hélène Ringot, Madam Anne Tual and our director M. Dr. Samuel Berthet; each gave a speech about opportunities in French speaking world and talked about higher studies in France. Our cultural program started form 5 p.m, both students and teachers performed equally in cultural part. Students from Little Jewels School, William Carry Academy performed music. Then some individual students performed music, followed by poem recitation by teachers. Then we had a fantastic drama, “Nous sommes tous d’œuvres d’art“performed by the mixed group of B2 and C1 level students, which was directed by Madam Anne Tual.
The following day, we had prize giving ceremony for quiz participants. Which followed by two films from Vietnam, I liked both the movies. Finally our Froncophonie celebration came to an end, every one of us thanked our event organizer M. Dr. Gurupada Chakrabarti and M. Dr. Samuel Berthet. It was all breliently done.
Thus, through this event AFC has been building up an interesting relationship of cultural exchange that strengthen communication and contacts between Bangladesh and Froncophonie countries
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