Integrating Information Literacy - Discipline Specific Resources

French

Objectives

for teaching information literacy competencies

Information Literacy objectives for K-12, Shrewbury, MA.

Foreign language classes and suggested activities for meeting objectives

Syllabi

that incorporate information literacy

French 190 (Information Resources), Washington and Lee University.

A one credit course taken in conjugation with another French class in which a research project has been assigned

Assignments

useful for teaching information literacy

Bibliography

of useful publications and resource materials

Bertsche, H. and Silvestri, H. "The Challenge of the Internet: Practical Applications in Your 7-12 Classroom." Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. (Nashville, TN, 31 November 1997). (in ERIC)
Bies, W. "Information Literacy als Lernziel des Fremdsprachenunterrichts." ("Information Literacy as the learning target of foreign language teaching.") Schulbibliothek-Aktuell. 1995, p. 283-293. (in German).
Maloney, Y. "Bibliographic Instruction for foreign-language classes: a pilot project." Research Strategies. 7(2), 1989, p. 61-66.
Meyer, E. Nicole. "Active-learning approaches to the Business French Course: the Business French Research Paper." Annual Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the Professions. (Ypsilanti, MI, 13-16 April 1994). (in ERIC)

Links

to useful websites

Caffarella, Edward. "New Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: Where do they fit with other content standards?" University of Chicago.

Potential target behaviors for several disciplines, including foreign languages.

Projects

funded by the Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon grant

Tutorials

that teach information literacy competencies

Last Modified:
Modified from work by Jesse Price,
Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, June 2001