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- Title
Le vécu de l'intercompréhension et les conséquences : attitudes face aux langues et identités culturelles polyréférentielles.
- Authors
Meissner, Franz-Joseph
- Abstract
This paper deals with the change of students' attitudes towards foreign language learning and teaching caused by intercomprehension. The data were gathered from German speaking students of Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) of the University of Giessen. The future teachers attended courses where they became familiar with Romance intercomprehension and its pedagogy as well. Each of them had to write a portfolio, to keep a learning diary and to log his/her 'Hypothetical Grammar' (the term will be elucidated in the article). Additional support for data gathering was given by videography which allowed a recording of the learners' activities when reading "unknown" Romance languages (aloud thinking, face work, hesitations...). The citations are taken from a corpus of about 70 documents of this type. The positions found in the students' data are in no way exceptional but are stressed by several subjects. Furthermore, the data show a relationship between the personal experiences of plurilingualism (intercomprehension) and some kind of European identity caused by encountering several languages and cultures.
- Subjects
SECOND language acquisition; STUDENT attitudes; ROMANCE languages -- Study &; teaching; FOREIGN language education; FRENCH as a second language; ITALIAN language education; GERMAN language
- Publication
Synergies Pays Germanophones, 2011, Issue 4, p141
- ISSN
1866-5268
- Publication type
Article