LA PARENTHÈSE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2014 BY LUCAS DUFOUR.
The LP school provides friendly and effective courses for anyone who wants to learn the French language.
“Je m’appelle Lucas Dufour...
With a degree in history and a doctorate in information science, I started as a librarian at INA (Paris). In the Netherlands, I became a French teacher, which was my true vocation. I first taught at the Alliance Française, and after a few more years of study, I opened La Parenthèse in 2014 and worked at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), the International School of The Hague and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This has enabled me to build up a solid educational background over the years.
I paint (in oil) too, and I do photography… but I am also a person who is interested in a thousand other things: literature, astronomy, geopolitics and history. So I read a lot (literature as well as newspapers and magazines), which allows me to feed my lessons with varied and continuously updated material.
My teaching methods.
My teaching experience with a variety of audiences (at the Alliance Française, the International School of The Hague and in many international organisations) has diversified my teaching approaches. I do not believe that there is a single method or textbook suitable for everyone. Hence the importance for me of always getting to know my students in order to build an effective progression
I systematically tailor my lessons to the particular needs of each student, depending of course on his or her abilities but also on his or her favourite subjects.
I read a lot of newspapers and literary and scientific magazines, and this is often where I get the material with which we work and organise the learning.
I naturally ask the students to do exercises (lexical or grammatical) at home after each lesson. I take these exercises from the various textbooks of the school and pass them on in electronic (pdf) or paper form. We systematically correct them at the beginning of each class.
The dialogue between the students and the teacher is very important. Not a lesson goes by without them talking about life and the events in the news.