Les bénéfices de l’enseignement des techniques de base de perfectionnement de langue à des apprenants (faux) débutants de FLE dans un contexte non francophone

𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 This thesis examines the teaching of FLE with a close look at its importance in South Africa and how this subject is taught in institutions of higher education. Existing teaching methodologies in this field are analysed in the South African context to highlight the importance of a custom-made intervention for local (foreign) language teaching. In response to the preliminary analysis of this study, an innovative programme for independent vocabulary learning is proposed and tested in an action research approach with a group of second-year university faux beginners in French as a foreign language. The first objective of this study is to establish the benefits of teaching basic language improvement exercises in the FLE classroom. The programme proposed in this thesis is based on language improvement exercises for student and professional interpreters. Although these exercises have been adapted for a group of faux beginners in French as a foreign language, they can easily and with little modification be applied to any language. The results of the study summarise the participants’ reactions to the proposed intervention and show how the exercises in the programme encourage learning development in that a neo language laboratory can be designed to boost autonomous learning at different levels of language proficiency. ___________________________________________________________________