'Teaching Languages through the Arts’, Symposium MICEFA, Mission Interuniversitaire de Coordination des Échanges franco-américains, journée d’études à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Résumé
According to the French new educational curricula (Official instructions of July 2015 and January 2019), learning languages should enable the learners to develop their artistic and cultural background. One of the language teacher’s mission should consist in encouraging the learners to “understand and communicate in the target language by using artistic languages”.
This raises the question of the language teacher’s training. Indeed, how can the language teacher enrich his teaching repertoire to introduce works of art in his course and resort to an interdisciplinary perspective?
The purpose of this communication is to show how future language teachers can be trained to introduce works of art (in particular, photography and painting) in their teaching and be more creative by resorting to enactive” and “translanguaging” perspectives.