LINGUIST List 17.12

Tue Jan 10 2006

Diss: Lang Acquisition/Psycholinguistics: Gouteraux: 'Le

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Directory         1.    Pascale Depraz-Gouteraux, Les voies de l’appropriation discursive en langue étrangère : élaboration de concepts didactiques communs pour l’apprentissage de l’anglais chez des apprenants avancés


Message 1: Les voies de l’appropriation discursive en langue étrangère : élaboration de concepts didactiques communs pour l’apprentissage de l’anglais chez des apprenants avancés
Date: 07-Jan-2006
From: Pascale Depraz-Gouteraux <gouterauclub-internet.fr>
Subject: Les voies de l’appropriation discursive en langue étrangère : élaboration de concepts didactiques communs pour l’apprentissage de l’anglais chez des apprenants avancés


Institution: University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot Program: English Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2003

Author: Pascale Gouteraux

Dissertation Title: Les voies de l’appropriation discursive en langue étrangère : élaboration de concepts didactiques communs pour l’apprentissage de l’anglais chez des apprenants avancés.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Dissertation Director:
Danielle Bailly
Dissertation Abstract:

This research explores how a didactic approach based on the acquisition ofa coherent linguistic system of reference through a variety of pedagogicaltools, suited to diverse learning styles, helps advanced students ofEnglish build an oral discursive competence. Within the linguisticframework of the Théorie des Opérations Énonciatives, an operatinggrammatical system is presented, which articulates "primitive relations"between lexical items, determination, tenses and aspects, modality, and thepatterns of logical and argumentative operations underlying complexutterances. By a psycholinguistic analysis of a body of oral productions bynon-specialist students, the study tests the efficiency of a teachingapproach associating communication and conceptualisation in meaningfulcommunicative tasks, in a project perspective, and activities to developlanguage awareness of the English system of signs. It also examines thecomplementarity of group teaching techniques and individualised"scaffolding" in one-to-one conversations for the production of oral speechboth fluent and structured.