A la rencontre de Philippe<\/em> is an original interactive fiction filmed in Paris, in which learners of French interact with the main character and try to help him solve his many problems. Philippe has just broken up with his live-in girlfriend and the student\u2019s main task (among others) is to find him a place to live.<\/p>\n Watching a foreign language film is not necessarily very motivating and is often difficult, since students are exposed to authentic language that may be difficult to comprehend and\u00a0to a foreign culture that may be quite opaque to them. Students are very much on the outside, looking inside (into another language, another place, another culture). Students often tend to tune out or stay on the surface.<\/p>\n A la rencontre de Philippe<\/em> allows students to take center stage, as the interactive story branches out in different ways, depending upon what they do, which in turn depends on what they understand. This highly motivates students.<\/p>\n This program also offers a unique and fundamentally different approach to language learning: it first immerses the user in a linguistically and culturally authentic world and then provides them with different sets of tools: tools to understand what people are saying, such as the ability to stop the video on demand, repeat segments, access key words, a transcription, and tools that allow them to take an active role within the story, such as: a map of Paris, an answering machine, a newspaper, a phone, that enable them to experience life in Paris first hand.<\/p>\n A la Rencontre de Philippe<\/em> is a language learning interactive story that touches on broader issues of: design, interactivity, simulation, motivation and pedagogy. As such it could be of relevance to everyone who is interested in any of those areas.<\/p>\n Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer in French, Foreign Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n Sabine Levet, Senior Lecturer in French, Foreign Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n (Presented at MIT Educational Technology Fair 2009)<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0Incorporating visualizations and simulations to deepen student understanding<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poster Presentation\/Demo Abstract A la rencontre de Philippe is an original interactive fiction filmed in Paris, in which learners of French interact with the main character and try to help him solve his many problems. Philippe has just broken up with his live-in girlfriend and the student\u2019s main task (among others) is to find him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech-fair-2009","tag-edtech-fair-2009"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Statement of the problem or issue<\/h2>\n
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