Seminar on research methodology for French as a foreign or second language [ LROM2317 ]

To have taken, or be taking at the same time, LROM2940 Didactics of French as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Studies.

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Epistemological aspects of interpretative research.

Technical dimension of such a research.

Collecting information : - observation - interview

Analysis and interpretation of the data

Critical dimension : criteria and " scientificity ".

The objective is to get the students initiated to the reseach methodology, enabling them to have a critical judgement on research texts in didactics of French as a foreign language (for instance based on experiments). It also allows them to make some interpretative research for the dissertation.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

The student presents a brief question in a report.

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The student is initiated to the research methodology enabling him/her to have a critical judgement on research texts in didactics of French as a foreign language (for instance based on experiments).It also allows the student to make some interpretative research for the dissertation.

There are for instance analyses of oral and written texts of people whose mothertongue is not French. This allows us to have a critical view on the methods of learning French.

Albarello L., Apprendre à chercher, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2012

Blanchet Ph, L'Entretien dans les sciences sociales, Paris, Dunod, 1985

Collès L., Didactique du FLE et de l'interculturel, Fernelmont, E.M.E? 2007.

- This seminar (LROM23170 forms part of the activities supported by CRIPEDIS : research on teaching methods and academic disciplines.

- This seminar is obligatory for all students who intend to do thesis on education at FLE.