La notion de conceptualisation en didactique des langues

Abstract

In the communicative approach to foreign language learning, the term « conceptualization », introduced by Henri Besse in the 1970s has become a durable element in the field. However, its coverage today does not correspond entirely to the original idea of which we mainly retain the inductive aspect, as shown in an analysis of several textbooks of FLE over a period of 30 years. Furthermore, being rooted in the particular context of the 1970s, it does not allow grammatical conceptualization to deal adequately with the so-called « task-based approach » nor does it correspond to the notions of emergentism and enactivism which have appeared very recently in the didactics of languages.

Keywords

• grammar
• conceptualization
• didactics of languages