Évaluation de l'approche neurolinguistique (ANL) auprès d'apprenants chinois de français en première et en deuxième année d'université

• Main Authors: Claude Germain, Minyi Liang, Inès Ricordel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ACEDLE 2015-06-01
• Series: Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
• Subjects: neurolinguistic approach (NLA); traditional Chinese method; internal grammar (non-conscious); external grammar (conscious); evaluation; oral production; written production
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/288

A two-year experiment of the NLA is presented. Results in oral and written production for two experimental classes after one and two years of instruction (1 year: n=28; 2 years: n=26) are compared with those of two classes (1 year: n=27; 2 years: n=28) at another Chinese university using the ‘traditional Chinese method’. Despite some variations on specific criteria for writing, test results indicate superior performance for the experimental group. These findings tend to replicate those for young anglophone and allophone students (11 or 12 years old) in Intensive French, the application of NLA in Canada. Contrary to expectations, these results suggest a tendency for chinese students to be open to more interactive ways of learning a foreign language.