L’approche intercomprehensive et la didactique des langues sur objectifs spécifiques

Abstract

Nowadays, job and geographical mobility is becoming increasingly more frequent, leading to new communicative demands. As a result, Language and cultures teaching for specific purposes proves to be a need in academic contexts. Foreign language teaching and research follows this process of mobility and academic exchange by proposing new approaches. In this context, social actors are more and more confronted to interact and communicate in multilingual environments without necessarily being polyglots. In this paper, we will present our experience on developing preparatory courses for university exchanges, based on the intercomprehensive approach. We consider that this approach is one of the possible methodologies for teaching and learning Romance languages developing in the learner skills to understand several languages simultaneously as well as to getting a certain level of knowledge of his own language. From this perspective, we have designed a pedagogical sequence that aims to prepare students for an academic stay abroad, exploring languages and cultural aspects of Romance languages. From this approach, students will be able to identify and bring together the similarities between these languages and to develop linguistic skills to communicate and interact in a multilingual environment.