Ms Joan Lefever
Teaching Fellow
French
Personal statement
* I joined the Modern Languages Departmentat at Strathclyde in 2008 after graduating from the Université François Rabelais de Tours in France where I gained a Masters in English language and history studies (American contempory history, linguistics, British politics, sociology, literature). I also completed a two year degree in German language and studies. * I am now a teaching language associate in French after gaining valuable experience as a language teaching assistant. * I am the coordinator for our Introduction to French classes after recently coordinating 2nd year French. I teach the following classes: R1107/8 French Language 1a/1b R1109/10 Introduction to French 1a/1b R1203/4 French Language 2a/2b R1305/6 French Language 3a/3b R1502/3 French Honours Exposé R1502/3 French Honours Communicatif * I teach French classes at the CLL (Centre for Lifelong Learning).
Prize And Awards
- Nominated for Women+ in Leadership Network [WILN+] awards
- Recipient
- 13/2/2023
- Nominated for most supportive and enthusiastic at Teaching Awards
- Recipient
- 2019
Qualifications
MA in British and American history and literature, Tours University, France
Deug (2 year undergraduate diploma) in German studies, Tours University, France
Teaching
Here are the language, cultural and speaking classes I teach:
R1109/10 Introduction to French 1a/1b
R1107/8 French Language 1a/1b
R1 114/5 Cert Ed French year 1
R1203/4 French Language 2a/2b
R1305/6 French Language 3a/3b
R1509 French Honours Exposé
R1509 French Honours Interpreting
R1 702 Translation studies
And I have taught the following classes:
R1510 French Honours Translation
R4406 Translation Studies : Key Debates and Theories
R1324: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives Of Sustainable Development: Languages
OS174 French Module Pre-Entry Access Course
Professional Activities
- Intercultural Competence and Global Citizenship
- Participant
- 3/7/2023
- STEP - Helping your students make the most of groupwork
- Participant
- 22/6/2023
- STEP - Becoming a Strathclyde Scholar (of teaching and learning)
- Participant
- 9/6/2023
- Learning and Teaching Improvement Framework Forums 2022-23: Forum 2
- Participant
- 10/3/2023
- Looking back at the Year abroad to the French Club of the 3L's of the CLL
- Speaker
- 16/12/2022
- Board of study of the School of Humanities, Hass Faculty, Strathclyde (Event)
- Advisor
- 28/9/2022
Projects
- Speak up 2023, debate competition in French
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator) Noel-Claassen, Aurelie (Principal Investigator) Piochaud-Prevost, Lucie (Academic)
- Revival post pandemic of the competition organised by the Alliance Française with a team from Glasgow University and a team from Strathclyde University. The students prepare 4 questions in advance and discover on the night if they will argue in favour or against. The debate took place in March during the Francophone cultural celebration week.
The relaunch of this event, which had to happen over a short period of time, was made possible by Emilie Perez, cultural coordinator of the Alliance Francaise, Ms Noel-Claassen from the University of Glasgow and myself, event coordinator for Strathclyde. My colleague, Ms Piochaud-Prevost, and I noted how well students performed and how well students in 2nd year and in Honours collaborated. - 02-Jan-2023 - 23-Jan-2023
- Living Languages 2023
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator) Mowe, Richard (Visiting Academic) Davidson, Sylvia (Visiting Academic) Gooroochurn, Sheena (Visiting Academic) Talbot, George (Visiting Academic)
- This year sees the relaunch of the Living languages events, a project that I reinvigorated after the Covid pandemic. Guests who value languages are invited for special evening Q&A events with Strathclyde language students and secondary school pupils invited by SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages). I invited Richard Mowe, director of the French and Italian film festivals UK and Sylvia Davidson, Translator and Short film curator of the French film festival UK for a Q&A event in January 2023. For February 2023, I invited 3 ex Language Strathclyde students for a special alumni, ae night. Previous Living Languages events proved very successful allowing students to broaden their career prospects and understand better how languages will prove important to them long after they leave university.
- 25-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2023
- Translation for the MOOC Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children 2022
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Academic)
- I was the French translator for the 2022 version of the MOOC whose contents needed updates because of the crisis in Ukraine.
- 08-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2022
- Translation for the MOOC COVID-19: Adapting Child Protection Case Management 2020
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Academic)
- I was the French translator for this MOOC that was redesigned to give practical guidance on how to adapt child protection case management in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in first half of 2020.
- 22-Jan-2020 - 12-Jan-2020
- Translation for the MOOC Caring for children moving alone : protecting unaccompanied and separated children 2019
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator)
- Translation into French of weekly content for this MOOC by CELCIS (Centre for Looked after Children) over 2 runs, one in the spring and one in the autumn
- 16-Jan-2019 - 16-Jan-2019
- Speak Up, debate competition in French
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator) Kerr, Greg (Co-investigator)
- Competition organised by the Alliance Française with a team from Glasgow University and a team from Strathclyde University. The students prepare 4 questions in advance and discover on the night if they will argue in favour or against. The debate takes place in November during the French film festival.
I was the coordinator for Strathclyde and twice led our team to victory over the Glasgow Uni team in 2017 and 2019. Win or lose, students said how great the experience was and how different it was to speaking in class. - 05-Jan-2017 - 28-Jan-2020