Le catalan comme langue étrangère dans l’enseignement supérieur en France : des bonnes racines et une excellente santé mais, quel avenir ?

Abstract

Our contribution proposes, firstly, a synthesis of the history of the teaching of Catalan in higher education in France. Secondly, it provides an overview of the current university training offer and the teaching staff that supports it. Finally, it considers the possible future of these studies, after highlighting some of the contradictions, problems and challenges facing the future of this teaching. To date, there have been only three reviews of the subject (Trenc, 2007; Berthelot, 2010 and Corrons, 2011), although many changes have occurred in the discipline. Thus, ten years after the last review, a new assessment is necessary. We recall that the teaching of Catalan belongs to two sections of the National Council of Universities (14th and 73rd sections); our article focuses on the 14th section: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Keywords

• teaching
• Catalan as foreign language
• universities
• France