Le rôle de la conception du métalangage sémantique naturel dans la didactique des langues : résultats de la recherche
The Role of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach From The Perspective of Foreign Language Pedagogy: Study Results

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present and verify the role of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) in foreign language learning and teaching. The NSM is a linguistic theory based on the philosophical idea of Leibniz according to which every human has some elementary and indefinable words in mind which serve him/her to explain and understand other more complex words and ideas. Those simple and indefinable words are called semantic primes and they are at the same time the basis of intercultural communication. In the article, I assume that the catalogue of primes should be very important not only in intercultural communication but also in early stages in studying foreign languages in the classroom and I tend to verify its pertinence in intracultural communication based on French as a foreign language. The data in my study were collected from student books used in formal education and from student texts written in a classroom as well student oral discourses recorded by video camera.

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