Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris Alumni Magazine - December 2018

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Sweet Briar College JYF in Paris Cordially invites you to our 70TH ANNIVERSARY COCKTAIL Friday, April 5, 2019 5:30 p.m. at Reid Hall, 4, rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris RSVP by Friday, February 15 sbcparis@sbc.edu (434) 381-6109 or 01-45-48-79-30 PARIS LECTURE SERIES Each year, JYF in Paris presents lectures for students, alumni of the program and host families. The Phoebe Bradt Lectureship and the Patricia G. Nichols Lectureship are possible thanks to the generosity of the Bradt Family Fund. The fund is part of the JYF endowment and supports multi-disciplinary lectures and receptions in France with contemporary French thought leaders. These activities, offered during the academic year, are intended to advance mutual understanding among members of university communities—notably the students of JYF and University of Paris as well as alumni of these institutions. 2018 LECTURES October 2018—Panel discussion on Immigration in France Today: Solidarity and Rejection with Raphaël Krafft, journalist and writer, author of “Passeur;” Guillaume Le Blanc, philosopher and author of “La fin de l’hospitalité;” and Olivier Adam, writer and author of “A l’abri de rien” and coscreen writer of the film “Welcome” about migrants at Calais March 2018—Panel discussion on “Women’s free speech: from #metoo to #balancetonporc” with Marcela Iacub, legal historian; Vincent Tolédano, journalist and lawyer; and Azadeh Kian, professor of sociology Did you know? Columbia Global Centers in Paris at Reid Hall, where JYF’s office is located, hosts well over 100 events per year: concerts, readings, lectures, performances, conferences. All events organized by the Paris Center are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. To learn more about upcoming events, visit https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-events To learn more about upcoming events and to receive invitations, please sign up for the mailing list at: globalcenters.columbia.edu/ paris. 4
Interview with DELIA MELLADO MEMORIES OF MME MELLADO: Mme Delia Mellado’s quote: “Vous avez vingt ans et vous êtes à Paris - vous avez de la chance!” She was right! Pramita Kuruvilla, 1997-1998, USC Mme Mellado’s grammar class strongly influenced my thinking about being a language teacher. It was a new and good perspective on language learning techniques. Jamie Olken Pokharel, Fall 2003, Wheaton College I especially loved taking classes at JYF offices with Madame Mellado. She was a fantastic teacher and I really loved her enthusiasm for the language. Samantha Galvan, Spring 2005 Every time Mme Mellado called us princes and princesses. Katelyn French, 2014 Mme. Mellado’s interactive (and always comedic) French grammar course! Megan Johnston, Spring 2015, How long have you worked for JYF and what do you teach? I have been working for JYF for many, many years… When I started teaching our beautiful French language for JYF, my current students were not born! What do you enjoy most about teaching American study abroad students? All the students who come to JYF are very interested in discovering French culture, and most of them already love it. This is why they are a very exceptional audience. For them, French language is obviously a means to achieve their goal, to enter French life and to belong, as much as possible, to Paris. What teacher could ask for more? What challenges do you experience teaching American study abroad students? First, I want to surprise them! They come to Paris to live a new experience and I want to surprise them by giving them something different from what they already learned, something maybe not better but different. My concern is the language and only the language. I want to show them that even if they have a good—and sometimes very good—level in French, they still have a lot of things to learn. I try to give them as much as I can during our three hours a week together. At the end of each class, I ask myself what my students have learned during this hour and a half spent together. Another challenge for me is not to forget anyone. Sometimes, students in the same group don’t need the same things and I have to adapt my teaching until I can see a smile on every face! How do you see your role? My role is a fantastic one! My role is to lead them to master our beautiful but very difficult language! I want them to feel comfortable and not to fear their professors’ reaction. The more they feel comfortable, the easier it gets. What impact do you think you have on students? That’s a difficult question. Learning a language requires rigor, but in spite of that rigor that can be sometimes difficult but leads to efficiency, I hope that I do transmit to my students my passion for French and foreign languages in general, because learning a new language is like opening your mind to different people. Sweet Briar College Professor Mellado has taught Sweet Briar’s Expression écrite and Grammaire et syntaxe avancées since 1990. She and her course are among the most memorable for many JYF alumni through the years. 5
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