READING IN FRENCH LANGUAGE MEDIA ARTICLES FOR SPECIFIC PUBLIC: DIDACTIC AND LINGUISTIC APPROACHES
READING IN FRENCH LANGUAGE MEDIA ARTICLES FOR SPECIFIC PUBLIC: DIDACTIC AND LINGUISTIC APPROACHES

Summary/Abstract: Whatever was the name given by the French didactic literature during the past three decades to the specialized communication: « scientific and technical French », « functional French », « instrumental French », « special objectives teaching», « specialized language », in all cases it is about the learning of French for professional goals: to know French for professional usages. Thus, the learners study about the French language, not the French; they learn about the French language to use it in determined contexts. To know a language for specific purposes, answering to professional needs is regarded as an advantage in a society which is more and more specialized. The present contribution aims at examining the way students in Economics, which study the French as a foreign language, might acquire the competence of reading in French, as to satisfy the special needs in their field of study.

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