Séminaire langues-cultures: Do you have to take classes to learn French?

As part of the Seminar on the didactics of languages and cultures organized by the LLSETI laboratory, the USMB invites you to a conference on the following theme "Do you have to take classes to learn French? Developing informal learning spaces for allophone adults: the example of the research-action of the Le français pour tous collective"..

To attend, come to the Jacob campus Jacob campus on Monday November 6, from 5pm to 7pm, room 19 002. Free admission.

Éric MERCIER and Maude VADOT will present the main findings of a two-year action-research project initiated by the "Le français pour tous" collective. In particular, they will discuss the injunction to take French courses in order to integrate, which has become central to immigration language policy since the mid-2000s. In the interviews we conducted, the adults concerned asked a wide range of questions about their own past and present learning paths: how, why and what was at stake, whether this learning took place in a formal or informal setting. In this way, the interviews reveal multiple paths to teaching and learning, in contrast to the standardized practices that are increasingly prescribed.

They will also show how the research process has led to transformations, already effective today, in certain practices contributing to formal and informal learning in the associative structures that have chosen to become involved in the approach.

> PLUS : Echoing the didactics seminar, Ciné Malraux will screen the same evening at 8:30pm the film "Atelier de conversation by Bernhard Braunstein. More info and tickets on the Espace Malraux website.

ABOUT THE SEMINAR AND THE SPEAKERS :

Designed to encourage dialogue between researchers from different universities, the didactics of language and culture seminar is open to anyone interested in the topics addressed, and in particular to students and salaried or volunteer trainers working with migrants in the region. The sessions, which take place on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus, are open to all.

Eric Mercier is a researcher associated with the EA 4428 DYNADIV research team (University of Tours). Since 2021, he has been co-coordinating the action-research project of the Le français pour tous collective (see website). His work focuses on French immigration language policies and their effects, questioned through the prism of their reception by adult learners‧es.

Maude Vadot is a lecturer in language sciences and language didactics atuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc. She is responsible for the FLE master's program as well as the "Languages, cultures, population movements" theme within the LLSETI laboratory (EA3706). Her work focuses on the academics linguistic of adult migrant‧es in France, and on the appropriation of French by these same publics.

For further information, please contact Service Vie Étudiante et de Campus (SVEC) - 04 79 75 94 15