(975) NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND MINORITY LANGUAGES LEARNING HOW TO USE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS TO DEVELOP OCCITAN LANGUAGE

摘要

Purpose:Our paper presents an experience with new technologies to improve the level of listeningcomprehension, using differentiated pedagogy.in a minority language. threatened by desocialisation.Approach:We describe how we organized specific needs workgroups for pupils in Romanic language classes(Occitan), with progressive exercises, increasing their exposure to the language. This experience wascarried out over four years in whole classes of 30 pupils in a secondary school, using equipmentsuch as an interactive whiteboard, computers and i-pods. We explain the way of working in thesesclasses: the warm -up of this experience and the remedial work according to the levels of the pupils.Findings:The results underline the importance of teacher mediation between pupils and numerical material, aswell as the importance of mutual help and oral progresses in occitan.Conclusions:Finally, we assess the benefits of the technological tools and the limits of this plan of action, for athreatened language and the necessity of teacher training.