Place de l'anglais et paradoxes des apprentissages langagiers à l'école

Abstract

This article examines the place of English in the French education system and addresses both the reasons for the domination of English and some paradoxical teaching practices reinforcing both the status of this language, as well as monolingual tendencies at school. While taking full account of the sociolinguistic fact that English has become the unavoidable language of our contemporary, globalized societies, what is proposed here is to ponder a scenario which would allow English to be part of an educational and linguistic policy of diversity and pluralism.

Keywords

• english
• education system
• language domination
• pluralism