Anatole Bloomfield

On January 17, Anatole Bloomfield made a presentation/lecture the 27th edition of Expolangues Paris, the international professional fair for languages and language learning and teaching, on the task-based and action-orientated approach in language learning and teaching, as a co-writer and co-director of a new series of educational textbooks to be published by CLE-International Editor.

Anatole Bloomfield was first appointed at AUP in 2000 as a specialist in Business French as well as in teaching French as a Foreign Language and French Culture as a Foreign Culture.

He particularly specializes in teaching French as a professional foreign language for business and public administration. He therefore focuses his teaching activities on politics, diplomacy and military issues.

Since 1993, Anatole Bloomfield has been developing with passion a particularly dense, structured panel of professional complementary activities/experiences in the field of French as a Foreign Language, both in France and abroad (for instance, he was appointed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to serve during two years, 1994-1995, in the Cultural Service of the French Embassy at the French Cultural Institute in Edinburgh and Glasgow- SCOTLAND-UK).

His research interests include:

1) Project in progress : Doctoral Thesis in Linguistics/Didactology of Languages and Cultures, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, Provisional title and subject of thesis : « La problématique des identités culturelles chez un groupe d’apprenants de niveau avancé en français langue étrangère : le cas des publics étudiants étrangers de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Etude d’Anthropologie Culturelle» . ( The problematic of cultural identities within a group of advanced level learners in French as a Foreign Language : the specific case of foreign students at the l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Research study in cultural anthropology ).

2) The strategies of use and the operating uses of the immediate environment for teaching and learning a target foreign language, within the context of linguistic immersion: the empirical case of the urban Parisian environment.

3) The creation of instructional materials in relation to the above "problématique".

SECTION "VOCABULAIRE EN ACTION" / “VOCABULARY IN ACTION”:

- Vocabulaire en Action, Niveau Débutant, A1-A2 du CECR, ouvrage paru chez CLE en janvier 2010.

- Vocabulaire en Action, Niveau Grand Débutant, A1 du CECR, ouvrage paru chez CLE en janvier 2011.

- Vocabulaire en Action, Niveau Intermédiaire, A2-B1 du CECR, ouvrage à paraître chez CLE juillet 2011.

- Vocabulaire en Action, Niveau Avancé, B1-B2 du CECR, ouvrage à paraître chez CLE juillet 2011 .

SECTION "GRAMMAIRE EN ACTION" / “GRAMMAR IN ACTION”:

- Grammaire en Action, Niveau Débutant, A1-A2 du CECR, ouvrage paru chez CLE en janvier 2010.

Co-author of the textbook: DELF B1 Nouveau diplome : 200 activités préparatoires, Collection Le Nouvel Entrainez-vous, published January 2006, CLE-INTERNATIONAL, Paris, First Edition.

Co-author of the textbook: DELF B2: 200 activités préparatoires, Collection Le Nouvel Entrainez-vous, published June 2006, CLE-INTERNATIONAL, Paris, First Edition.

Co-author of the method textbook for Professional French: Affaires à suivre, HACHETTE-FLE, Paris, April 2001, First, Second, Third Edition.

Author of the pedagogical and instructional guide for teachers in Professional French: Guide pédagogique Affaires à suivre, HACHETTE-FLE, Paris, Octobre 2001. Official Approval and special partnership of the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris.

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