Le Manuel Scolaire a-t-il encore sa Place dans l’Enseignement/Apprentissage du FLE ? État des Lieux

Abstract

Does the School Textbook still have its Place in the Teaching/Learning of French as a Foreign Language? A State of Affairs

The textbook is a didactic tool of great importance. Its role is decisive in the learning of French as a foreign language and allows, if it is well used, to effectively take charge of verbal memory and semantic memory, two important parameters for harmonious learning. Verbal and semantic memory: it is this type of memory that the teaching of language acquisition makes use of. In fact, the reader or the interlocutor reminds a given number of words. This verbal capacity permits the learners to utter a discourse the way it takes place in class. According to psycholinguists who are unanimous about the subject, memorizing takes place on a semantic and non-linguistics basis. In classroom environment, memorizing is based on linguistic grounds “the text can only have meaning if it integrates itself after selection, filtering and in the pre-existing structure of the subject. This research showed that the methodological situation attributed to the French language in schools is somewhat paradoxical, as textbooks revealed it. The second generation textbooks promise to present an originality that would make them seem like the product of a new and national pedagogy.If the development of the program and the writing of the textbook do not take into account everything that motivates the pupil, if the content is not varied, diversified according to the needs of the pupils and their cognitive abilities, the teacher must remedy this situation and overcome all these obstacles which constitute the failure of the teaching / learning process. However, it is undeniable that the role of the teacher of French is difficult because he must at the same time teach the language (object) and the means of communicating this object).