EXPLICATION DE TEXTE Flashcards
With a fresh ___ under his arm, he set forth to
attend the opening lecture of the course. ___
young men, bare-headed, filled an ___, where an
old man in a red gown was delivering a ___ in a
___ voice. ____ went scratching over the
paper…’ (_____). In this fashion, Gustave
Flaubert captures the essence of ___ education in the
__th century, of which explication de texte was a __
technique.
- blotting-case
- three hundred
- amphitheater
- discourse
- monotonous
- quill pens
- sentimental education
- french
- 19
- core
Explication de texte is French for ‘____’, but might better be
translated as ‘____’. In fact ______ is another French term
for it, as is ____ (___, or ___, reading). All these terms attest to the ___ associations that explication de texte has with the teaching of ___: like ___, explication de texte is ___ in ___, in teaching French both as a ___ ,especially its ___, and as a ____ – and it has a long
history.
- text application
- text analysis
- analyse de texte
- lecture expliquee
- explicated
- explained
- strong
- French
- dictation
- embedded
- French pedagogical practice
- mother tongue
- literature
- foreign language
In fact, explication de texte goes back at least ___ years – to the classical
tradition of ____ (literally ‘____’) – where pupils in ___ were required to parse the ___, scan the ___, and comment on the ___ of each line of the classical poem or play that they happened to be studying. The tradition persisted into the ___ and beyond, and was known as ‘__’. It ___ with a tradition of ___ scholarship (or ___).
- 2000
- praelectio
- reading aloud
- Ancient Rome
- grammar
- meter
- style
- Renaissance
- construing
- merged
- Biblical scholarship
- exegis
It was not until the end of the ___ century, though, that explication de texte began to be applied to ___ languages. Combined with ___, it ___ into what became known as ____ (see chapter10). As a ___ for the study and appreciation of ___, as well as for the teaching of ___ language literacy, it found a ___ fit with the ___ tradition of the ____, with its taste for ____. For the teaching of __ languages, and as a ___ to such Western practices as the direct method, in ___, Russia it was rebranded as the ‘____’, and, as such, was then exported to __.
- eighteenth
- living
- translation
- morphed
- Grammar-Translation
- vehicle
- literature
- first
- natural
- philological
- French enlightenment
- formal analytic analysis
- foreign
- reaction
- Soviet
- conscious-comparative method
- China
An example from a ___ of the time shows how explication de texte
was adapted to the teaching of English in the ___ century. The first
book of ____ New Course (1851/1872) is ___ based on
___ text, a ___ translated into ___ English. Each sentence
of the story supplies the content of each of the course’s __ units. For
example, the first sentence, and hence the first text that the learner meets,
goes like this
- textbook
- nineteenth
- T Robertson’s
- ingeniously
- one single
- folk tale
- ungraded
- 20’s
Then follow ____ pages in __ (because this is the
version of the course designed for Spanish speakers), providing a key to the ___, a ____, exercises for ___, and then a section titled ‘____’ (___ and __ are advised to skip this section) in which every word is subject to detailed ‘____’ for what it reveals about English __, ___ or __. Unpeopled, for example, exemplifies the way that the prefix un- negates the meaning of some verbs, while the suffix –ed forms the past participle. The same procedure is adopted for each of the subsequent __ segments of the text.
- twenty closely written
- spanish
- pronunciation
- translation
- translation
- Analysis Theory and Synthesis
- women
- children
- explication
- phonology
- morphology
- syntax
- 19
The ___ notes for the course recommend that the text be __ on the board and that the book be ___ during the lesson. The teacher
orchestrates a succession of tasks, including ___, ___,
____, ____, and the ___ of elements of the text to create new __ or __. By the end of the lesson, students are expected to have learned the text by __.
- teacher’s
- written
- kept close
- reading aloud
- translation
- question and answer
- dictation
- re-combining
- phrases
- sentences
- heart
A __ of this method was (___) invented by a teacher of
__ in the late __ century. ____ (1770–1840) was
___ required to teach French to speakers of ___, a language
he knew nothing of. Unable to use ___, he nevertheless had his
students get copies of a French ___. Using the book as a kind of __,
the students were set the task of __ the text, a__ at a time, and
searching the text for further examples of the same __ or ___.
Gradually, they were able not only to __ of the book but also to
acquire the ___ . From this experience, Jacotot concluded that learners were able to ___ with ___ guidance, and that a single book could embody a ___ of the language as a ___.
- variation
- accidentally
- French
- 18th
- Jean Joseph Jacotot
- Flemish
- translation
- novel
- corpus
- reading
- word
- words
- structures
- make sense
- basics of the grammar
- teach themselves
- little overt
- microcosm
- whole
The ___ on __, with its associated __, and on
___, places explication de texte __ in the ____
camp. Like Grammar-Translation (to which it is akin), such an approach
__ suit certain kinds of learners ___ others, e.g. those with a
___ learning style and with __ need to put the language to
___ use. Those in a __, however, may find the approach
____.
- reliance
- explanation
- terminology
- translation
- firmly
- non-natural method
- may
- more than
- scholarly
- less
- communicative
- hurry
- frustrating
Of course, it’s ____ to imagine a ‘___’ version of explication
de texte, where, for a start, the texts are ___, and where the individual
sentences demonstrate features of ___ and ___ which have
been selected as ___ to the learners’ ___ stage.
- not impossible
- lighter
- graded
- grammar
- vocabulary
- appropriate
- developmental
Nevertheless, research suggests that there is __ or ___ correlation between _____ (knowledge about the language) and _____. That is to say, knowing that un- is a ___ prefix does not ___ transfer into the capacity to make __ statements. Moreover, the __ of the teacher ___, and __ at length about ___ and __, at the __ of any learner ___ or ___, makes the ___ adoption of the approach __, to say the least. This is where an __ version of explication de texte – in the style of __ – which is __ teacher- or ___, and which involves the learners __ to solve language __ in a text – might be a ___ option
- little
- no
- metalinguistic knowledge
- communicative ability
- negative
- automatically
- negative
- risk
- taking over
- lecturing
- grammar
- style
- involvement
- engagement
- wholesale
- risky
- adopted
- Jacotot
- less
- book-centered
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- viable
____ – for many, the current ___ –
has often been ___ for the somewhat ___ approach it takes to
dealing with __. ___ and ___ a __ text, or extracting the
__ from a ___ text, are __. But ‘___’ __ or __ are ___ dealt with in many current materials. Arguably, this is a __: texts are ___ for what they might reveal about a whole range of ___ features – __, ___ and __. Explication de texte –preferably ___and ___ – offers a ___ for this kind of more ___ analysis. And, ___ needing to venture too far into __ or ___, ‘___’ encourages learners (typically at ___ levels) to ___ with, and
‘___’ texts, in order to uncover their ideological ___.
- Communicative Language Teaching
- orthodoxy
- criticized
- superficial
- texts
- Skimming
- scanning
- gist
- spoken
- close
- reading
- listening
- loss
- under-exploited
- linguistic
- lexical
- grammatical
- textual
- learned-led
- collaborative
- methodology
- penetrating
- without needing
- exegis
- literary criticism
- critical reading
- more advanced
- critically engage
- interrogate
- subtexts
