Descentralizarea – principiu fundamental pentru perspectiva acțională în didactica limbilor străine
Decentralization – A Fundamental Principle for the Action Perspective in Foreign Language Didactics

Summary/Abstract: The present study brings to the foreground the role of the foreign language teacher, in the micro-society of the classroom. Decentralization, a principle promoted by present didactics, represents the movement of the teacher’s role from a central position to a marginal position or one similar to that of students. In the first part of the article we will follow the evolution of the teacher’s role, through a history of the discipline, emphasising the relation of different epistemological contexts, methodologies proposed across time and the hierarchical position of the teacher in relation to the students. The purpose of this diachronic record is to show that decentralization is the fundamental and absolutely necessary principle in the present didactics of foreign languages, a principle adapted to the learning philosophy promoted by the CEFRL. In the second part, we will analyse some of the techniques to decentralise the process of teaching-learning foreign languages. Moreover, we will illustrate the mutations involved in decentralization, as well as the contingency points between them and the action perspective, a theoretical vision promoted by the CEFRL.

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