Gérer la complexité en didactique des langues-culture - Christian Puren

Excerpts from the virtual French as a Foreign Language (FLE) meeting of May 22, 2019, led by Christian Puren on the theme "Managing Complexity in Language and Culture Teaching: Considering Language and Culture Diversity, Heterogeneity, and Unity Together." Find the complete recording of this virtual FLE meeting, the presentation PDF, and Christian Puren's answers to participants' questions on our educational platform, Espace virtuel, with your Premium Teacher account: https://espacevirtuel.emdl.fr ____________ In language and culture teaching, diversity and its positive counterpart, plurality, are both opposed to their negative counterpart, heterogeneity, and multiplicity itself is opposed to unity. The didactic unit, the components of cultural competence, the structural contradictions of teaching practice, the relationship between communication and action, pairs of opposing methods, the various established methodologies and available "methodological objects" are all concrete examples that illustrate how managing the complex relationship between the teaching and learning processes has always made these opposites work together in a complementary way. Contrary to the dominant, monolithic thinking in language and culture didactics for over 30 years, which emphasizes only positive multiplicity—diversity and plurality—it is necessary, in all areas of language and culture didactics, to think in a complex way. This implies simultaneously considering, within multiplicity, both diversity and plurality and heterogeneity, as well as multiplicity and unity. ____________ Learn more about the Virtual French as a Foreign Language (FLE) Meetings: https://www.emdl.fr/fle/formations/re... Find the replay and supporting documents from our Virtual French as a Foreign Language (FLE) Meetings on the Virtual Space website, under the Training section: https://espacevirtuel.emdl.fr