L’intuition linguistique et le raisonnement par analogie dans l’apprentissage-acquisition d’une langue étrangère

Abstract

The aim of the article is to characterize language intuition understood as a type of intellectual process and/or mental disposition activated involuntarily and spontaneously during foreign language learning-acquisition as also the presentation of reasoning by analogy, which is inherently connected with intuition. The first part presents pedagogical concepts of Ferdinand Buisson who, by promoting the intuitive method in French education, pointed to its naturalness, universality and effectiveness. Buisson's concept is completed by Valérie Derkx's analysis about second language learning-acquisition. The second part shows examples of exercises aimed at activating the reasoning by analogy and language intuition.