PROJET DE LECTURE DES TEXTES SCIENTIFIQUES
SCIENTIFIC TEXT READING PROJECT

Summary/Abstract: In this research, the scientific text reading project is elaborated as one of the techniques of acquiring reading comprehension skills.The goal of the article is to adapt the reading project to scientific texts, taking into consideration their specific features, to identify the types of scientific texts and their linguistic and non-linguistic markers and to analyze a text of scientific vulgarization stage by stage in order to guide teachers of French for Specific Purposes (FSP) in their career trajectory. To achieve this objective, a qualitative approach is used, which includes methods of algorithmization (identifying the stages of the reading project), of systematization (establishing typologies of scientific texts and of their lexical and morphosyntactic peculiarities) and of interpretive analysis (interpreting the invariants (generic specificities) and the idiostylistic features of a studied text).It is proven that the pre-reading (brainstorming, paratextual apparatus) and reading (global and detailed comprehension) stages of the project help the learner in FSP to interpret the information presented in scientific texts and allow the teacher to elaborate a series of post-reading exercises and activities of two types: a) those for working with vocabulary and morphosyntax; b) those of oral and / or written production; in order to better assimilate the explicit and implicit content of the analyzed text.The results obtained call for empirical validation with learners and teachers of FSP, and open the way to comparative experiments with different types of specialized texts and to the elaboration of series of activities for the construction of their global meaning.

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