Petit plaidoyer pour l’autonomisation au niveau supérieur en français langue étrangère

This contribution starts with arguing, at both theoretical and practical levels, for autonomization in the advanced teaching/learning of French, showing that approach as highly recommendable in the presentday situation in Poland, especially in the university setting. The second part of the article gives evidence of it, referring to a research project conducted recently in this precise context, in which autonomization appeared as very useful also in teacher training

Apprentissage semi-autonome: Résultats d’une expérience de tutorat

The contribution reports some results from a study on the semi-autonomous learning of French as a foreign language by a dozen of first-year university students (intermediate level). It focuses on the evolution those students, identified as « poor learners », underwent as far as their views, attitudes and strategies in FL learning were concerned - as an effect of them being helped and advised by their much more advanced colleagues (4th year). By the end of this period the 1st year students showed a clear change in all these respects, even though adapting more adequate strategies proved slower to appear than changes in views and attitudes. At the same time, the experience proved to be most fruitful to their tutors in acquainting them with action research methodology.The contribution reports some results from a study on the semi-autonomous learning of French as a foreign language by a dozen of first-year university students (intermediate level). It focuses on the evolution those students, identified as « poor learners », underwent as far as their views, attitudes and strategies in FL learning were concerned - as an effect of them being helped and advised by their much more advanced colleagues (4th year). By the end of this period the 1st year students showed a clear change in all these respects, even though adapting more adequate strategies proved slower to appear than changes in views and attitudes. At the same time, the experience proved to be most fruitful to their tutors in acquainting them with action research methodology

Procédés interactifs de construction du sens dans le discours. Un modèle dans le développement des compétences orales au niveau avancé en langue étrangère ?

This article is aimed at giving a part of response when it comes to selecting resources, both relevant and easily accessible, which could serve as models in developing complex L2 oral competences. Those resources should encompass all levels (relational, semantic, and formal) required in realizing and interpreting efficiently our communicative intentions in oral language. Among suggested criteria, priority is clearly given to the mastery of interactive procedures in meaning construction, as playing a crucial role both in a speaker’s/learner’s communicative efficacy and the dynamics of his/her oral capacities’ development through the media. Moreover, to illustrate our reflection, we analyze the pedagogical and interactive potential in some excerpts from Le téléphone sonne, a radio segment available in podcast format.This article is aimed at giving a part of response when it comes to selecting resources, both relevant and easily accessible, which could serve as models in developing complex L2 oral competences. Those resources should encompass all levels (relational, semantic, and formal) required in realizing and interpreting efficiently our communicative intentions in oral language. Among suggested criteria, priority is clearly given to the mastery of interactive procedures in meaning construction, as playing a crucial role both in a speaker’s/learner’s communicative efficacy and the dynamics of his/her oral capacities’ development through the media. Moreover, to illustrate our reflection, we analyze the pedagogical and interactive potential in some excerpts from Le téléphone sonne, a radio segment available in podcast format

Apprentissage semi-autonome: Résultats d’une expérience de tutorat

The contribution reports some results from a study on the semi-autonomous learning of French as a foreign language by a dozen of first-year university students (intermediate level). It focuses on the evolution those students, identified as « poor learners », underwent as far as their views, attitudes and strategies in FL learning were concerned - as an effect of them being helped and advised by their much more advanced colleagues (4th year). By the end of this period the 1st year students showed a clear change in all these respects, even though adapting more adequate strategies proved slower to appear than changes in views and attitudes. At the same time, the experience proved to be most fruitful to their tutors in acquainting them with action research methodology

A short defence speech for autonomization at the advanced level of learning French as a foreign language

This contribution starts with arguing, at both theoretical and practical levels, for autonomization in the advanced teaching/learning of French, showing that approach as highly recommendable in the presentday situation in Poland, especially in the university setting. The second part of the article gives evidence of it, referring to a research project conducted recently in this precise context, in which autonomization appeared as very useful also in teacher training

Glottodidactics and its field of investigation

Glottodidactics is obviously to be seen as a rather new discipline, situated between the humanities and social sciences. This area of studies is delineated first of all by its object and research aims. Although there is a clear consensus about defining this object as L2 teaching/learning, it seems much harder to agree on how to structure this area in a tenable way. This article will argue in favor of organizing the field of glottodidactics in a way that would be propitious for the discipline as a whole, and for studies conducted within it. Further, a proposal is formulated to arrange this field around a central axis which could, in the author’s view, be the process of fostering learners’ communicative competence

Do we need the concept of discourse in foreign language pedagogy?

Despite its growing popularity within the humanities and social sciences, the concept of discourse (and also discourse analysis) continues to be perceived as rather vague by those who are not experts in the domain of discourse analysis. The aim of the present paper is to acquaint non-specialist readers with the multifold, interdisciplinary nature of discourse in order to further consider its usefulness with reference to foreign language pedagogy. It is argued that a wider use of this concept may lead us to a more coherent view of the main issues underlying our field, namely by integrating into our thinking both social and individual communicative practices. This idea is illustrated with selected conceptual tools and the views advanced by leading French discourse analysts (e.g. Charaudeau, 1993, 2010; Maingueneau, 1996, 2005) and, up to this point, mainly exploited in studying the media and public communication. Moreover, the importance of typological distinctions in foreign language pedagogy is stressed and an example of a discursive approach to foreign language instruction is provided. At the same time, attention is drawn to inherent and/or objective limitations on and difficulties in a wider use of the concept of discourse. These problems notwithstanding, the conclusion points to the fact that, given the complexity of our domain, it is hardly conceivable nowadays that we can be content with oversimplified formulae and limited, one-sided theories

Autonomia intelektualna neofilologa. O relacjach między teorią a praktyką i roli dialogu w zawodach językowych

Modern language professionals’ intellectual autonomy: The relationship between theory and practice and the role of the dialogue in modern language profession