This paper presents one aspect of our ongoing research in the context of a doctoral thesis. We focus on the use of multimodal oral corpora to develop the interactional skills of learners of French as a foreign language (André 2018, Ravazzolo and Etienne 2019). To do so, we compiled a list of interactional difficulties through a survey of 20 researchers and French as a Foreign Language teachers. After that, we created a learner corpus to check whether the difficulties brought up in the survey were present in learners’ productions, and to narrow down our results. To better analyze this corpus, we conducted self-confrontations so that we could have input directly from the learners. The objective was to identify interactional difficulties that could be the object of data-driven learning (Johns 1991) sessions with intermediate-level learners of French as a Foreign Language. The paper is part of the AILA Europe special issue.
Cet article présente une étude menée auprès d’apprenants de Français Langue Etrangère, visant à rendre compte de la différence (ou de l’absence) d’acquisition de compétences interactionnelles selon deux démarches d’apprentissage. Huit apprenants, répartis en binômes, ont travaillé sur les utilisations en interaction de la préposition temporelle pendant. Certains ont été mis en situation d’apprentissage sur corpus en exploitant le dispositif FLEURON et d’autres ont suivi un cours traditionnel hétérodirigé. Les résultats tendent à montrer que lors des sessions d’apprentissage sur corpus, les apprenants développent des compétences métalinguistiques qui permettent une meilleure conscience langagière.
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