Abstract
This article introduces several original documents used to teach French and French Literature to Taiwanese university students. The audiovisual documents were made in cooperation with a female French singer and harp player, a former Taiwanese student who studied French and visual arts, and a Taiwanese teacher. The result of our work is a video with a song, lyrics in French/English/Chinese, and dozens of drawings to illustrate the short movie. The other original documents are manuscripts of The Little Prince that were not included in the published version of the novella: two leaves discovered in 2012, notably including a previously unknown character, and a huge manuscript (twice the size of the published version) offered to Silvia Hamilton by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in New York in April 1943. Silvia Hamilton sold the manuscript to the Morgan Library in 1968. A book including the original leaves and the transcripts was published in 2013. The author of this article studied both manuscripts and published a short journal paper on the 2012 manuscript in 2023; the second paper, on the Morgan Library manuscript, was published in August 2024. Teaching materials are uploaded on a Facebook group (“Creative Teaching”), on the teacher’s website, and Moodle. Data is collected from September 2024 to June 2025. Using original documents, such as songs, drawings, short movies, and relatively unknown manuscripts, might increase students’ motivation and interest. Moreover, during the class, students will also be invited to write original short stories and make new audiovisual documents.
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Bernard Montoneri, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
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Conference: KAMC2024
Stream: Literature
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To cite this article:
Montoneri B. (2024) On the Use of Original Audiovisual Documents and Manuscript to Teach “The Little Prince” ISSN: 2436-0503 – The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 317-327) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.29
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.29
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