Le professeur de FLE – médiateur linguistique et interculturel dans le contexte de l’enseignement roumain
The Teacher of French as a Foreign Language – Linguistic and Intercultural Mediator in the Context of Romanian Education

Summary/Abstract: In these divided times, an important role in building connections through values belongs to the language teacher, as a linguistic and cultural mediator. « Mediating communication aims to facilitate understanding and shape successful communication between users/learners who may have individual, sociocultural, sociolinguistic or intellectual differences in standpoint. The mediator tries to have a positive influence on aspects of the dynamic relationship between all the participants, including the relationship with themselves. » (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Learning Teaching, 90) In our paper, we aim at emphasizing on the role of the teacher of French as a foreign language in intercessions in communication among learners, in the following respects: facilitating pluricultural space, acting as an intermediary, facilitating communication in delicate situations and disagreements. The teachers aim to facilitate a positive interactive environment for successful communication between students of different cultural backgrounds, including (in) multicultural contexts. Rather than simply building on their pluricultural repertoire to gain acceptance and to enhance their own mission or message, they are engaged as a cultural mediator: creating a neutral, trusted, shared « space » in order to enhance communication between others. They aim to expand and deepen intercultural understanding between participants in order to avoid and / or overcome any potential communication difficulties arising from contrasting cultural viewpoints. Similarly, we shall identify the core values of citizenship education, making use of authentic communication through a foreign language, also proposing a series of mediation strategies, in the sense of techniques employed to clarify meaning and facilitate understanding, and providing examples of linguistic mediation activity sheets.

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