For Students

The Julien Couture Resource Centre has a vast collection of documents for self-directed learning of French and English, along with modern technological equipment. The following resources are available:

• Field-related journals;
• Theoretical volumes;
• Course textbooks;
• Reference materials, dictionaries, etc.;
• Audio-visual aids.

This Section is a lending library. Individuals who have borrowing privileges are:

• Graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Linguistics and the Faculty of Education's second language teaching section;
• OLBI professors and teachers.

Consultants

The consultants' role includes interacting with students (i.e. welcoming students, orienting them and assisting them in locating materials appropriate to their level of ability). Consultants also provide individual attention to students, when time permits.

Second Language Monitors

The monitors provide students with practice in oral communication skills. These monitors work with individuals and small groups. They also provide extra help to students who use the Learning Section.

The Learning Section is composed of 4 areas designed for individual work:

• A reading, composition, and reference area;
• A listening area, which consists of individual listening stations;
• A video room, where students may watch videos individually or in small groups;
• A computer room where students have access to multimedia work stations.

At the launch on November 15, the Portail francophile unveiled its website and present its working team. We took the opportunity to show an original type of collaborative learning named "parrainage", with an in-class partnership between francophone and francophile students.

The Portail francophile website provides an easy access to all the resources available on campus to make learning in French a complete experience for anglophone students. These “francophiles” are growing in numbers at University of Ottawa, an institution famous for its academic excellence and bilingualism. The result of a fruitful collaboration between professor Alysse Weinberg, from ILOB, and professor Sylvie Perrier, from the History Department, Project Francophile aims to provide academic support to anglophone students taking courses in French. This project was supported by a grant from the “Fund for the Development of Initiatives on the Quality of Learning and the University Experience”, from the office of the Vice-President Academic.

Please click on the button below to access the Portail.

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