PLIDAM research areas

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Positioned in the context of language diffusion, learning and teaching, the Pluralité des Langues et des Identités : Didactique - Acquisition - Médiations (PLIDAM) team aims to be situated in the field of finalized research: study of language acquisition processes, teacher/learner relationships, impact of new technologies on knowledge transmission, design of new diplomas, production of teaching tools.

The aim of "didactics of languages and cultures", as understood in this project, is to place the description and transposition of languages and cultures within the context of teaching, training and research. The aim is to better master teaching methodologies and approaches and their theoretical underpinnings, based on a more in-depth analysis of educational situations, foreign language learning cultures and the language and literature market.

In this definition, the team reaffirms the strength of the link between "languages" and "cultures", and breaks new ground by opening up the disciplinary field hitherto narrowed around applied linguistics. The proposed approach positions the challenges of foreign language didactics within a broader disciplinary framework, one dictated by developments in our knowledge-based society, as well as the educational and social missions and responsibilities of institutions involved in the dissemination and promotion of languages, literatures and cultures. Through its work, the team aims to shed light on the consequences and prospects opened up in its privileged fields of research by the process of globalization, the acceleration of European construction and the French-speaking world.

In 2014, following collective reflection and in order to take into account the expertise of new team members, the four axes of the previous quadrennium were reconfigured and a new axis ("Literature and culture in language didactics") was created. An axis 6 entitled "SémioMed - Sémiotique, corpus multimédias et usages" was created in 2018. Today, the team's activities are structured around the 6 axes below, which are all issues in the teaching/learning of foreign languages and cultures.

Accordéons
1 - Language policies, plurilingualism and representations
Area 2 - Didactics and language teaching/learning
3 - Lexicon and translation: what didactics?
Focus 4 - Literature and culture in language teaching
Focus 5 - Development and use of digital tools
Axis 6 - SémioMed "Semiotics, multimedia corpora and uses".