Pour une pédagogie de l'alternance des langues ou le plurilinguisme pour tous par l’intercompréhension

Abstract

In an article published in 1995 in the ELA, Louise Dabène examined the curricular designs that could best offer a field of deployment for pedagogical practices centered on mutual understanding in languages of the same family, like Romance languages. A wide range of diverse projects centered around the curricular integration of intercomprehension were carried out over the last 25 years. In this article, I focus on seven scenarios to demonstrate that "intercomprehensive approaches in education" strongly contribute to opening access to plurilingualism for all, through a pedagogy of language switching. Knowing how to change languages, accepting language changes and language contacts (at home and with others), knowing how to question language changes; these are some of the skills that can be targeted by this pedagogy.

Keywords

• second language teaching and learning
• plurilingual education inter-comprehension
• language switching in the classroom