L’apprentissage des langues étrangères autres que l’anglais en milieu académique, entre obligation et motivation
Learning Foreign Languages Other than English at University between Obligation and Motivation

Summary/Abstract: Teaching foreign languages in an academic environment is a challenge, especially in thecase of languages other than nowadays’ lingua franca, i.e. English. This challenge isrooted in professors’ abilities to elicit from students what they need to study, what will beuseful for them in their professional field, and also in students’ confidence in professors’choices. The main task of a professor of foreign languages is to find a balance betweenobligation and motivation, so that students will make progress in their foreign languages,namely French and German (in our case, compulsory subjects). Our research aims totackle this balance, so we shall focus on the student on the one hand, and on the optionsavailable to the professor, on the other.

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