Migration stories and teaching/learning of French as a Foreign Language Cover Image

Récits de migration et enseignement/apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère (FLE)
Migration stories and teaching/learning of French as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Anne-Sophie Morel
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: French as a foreign language; migrations; migrant literature
Summary/Abstract: This article examines intercultural mediation through the stories of plurilingual “migrant” writers. These texts, whose authors live or have lived between several languages and have written in several languages including French, contribute towards building plurilingual and pluricultural competences as well as metalinguistic awareness in French as a Foreign Language learners. The language biography, as a training or self-training tool, enables learners to reflect on the notions of identity and belonging between languages and cultures.