Thèse soutenue

La place de l'interculturel dans l'enseignement-apprentissage du français des affaires en Lettonie

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Auteur / Autrice : Jekaterina Lebedeva
Direction : Christine Le BozecJacques Cortès
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Didactique des langues et des cultures et Sciences du langage
Date : Soutenance en 2008
Etablissement(s) : Rouen

Résumé

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To understand and to comprehend Another, to take him as he is, keeping at the same time your sense of identity, to acknowledge the inevitable cultural mix and the idea of transformation through encountering Another – these are several main objectives of teaching/learning of a foreign language and culture. My research conducted within European context states the limitation of intercultural dialogue both in Latvia (where a vast Russian national minority commonly find itself in a very difficult situation) and beyond its borders. The Latvian environment does not demonstrate its openness to the variety of cultures, and its weak tolerance towards Another is one of the causes of its stereotypically negative perception by the students of France and rest of the world. Moreover, Business French systematically excludes any intercultural approach, considered by majority of teachers inappropriate for the commercial sphere. Therefore, the aim of the present research is two-fold: to prove in theory the importance of intercultural and transcultural approaches in teaching/learning of foreign languages and cultures irrespective of the sphere, and to prove that this theory can and must be applied in practice in order to prepare the future professional to face the “cultural shock” safely. Apparently, an educational establishment should lay the basis of European society being less focussed on conventions and traditions incompatible with the balanced construction of the Union