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Volume 3, Numéro 1, Pages 10-18
2009-12-31

Developing A Self-access Centre For The Lmd Programme

Authors : Belkhenchir Khadoudja .

Abstract

The educational system in Algeria has recently witnessed different changes from primary to university levels. At university level, the most recent change is the introduction of the L.M.D (Licence / Master / Doctorat) programme which started in 2004. Through this reform, the ministry aims at a better university training with the adequate qualifications that allow the students to join the workforce and satisfy the needs of the socio-economic sector. In the LMD language teaching, at the ‘Licence’ level, the programme is composed of teaching units (70%) and individual work (30%). In terms of practice, the units are organised and presented in a more or less satisfactory way. However, the organisation of individual work is not appropriately done - the students are left on their own to do whatever activity they like - or is inexistent (it has not been planned yet in the programme). Therefore, in the present paper, we suggest to develop a self-access area – as a space for individual work, to complement what students do in class. As such, and for a better mastery of the language, we help the students to move from non-members to members of the target discourse community. Thus, a description of such a space and its organisation will be given, together with some suggested activities to develop the students’ motivation.

Keywords

Developing a Self-access Centre for the LMD Programme