Pratiques transfictionnelles en classe de langue à l’école primaire

• Main Author: Marie-France Burgain
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ACEDLE 2018-09-01
• Series: Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
• Subjects: picture-books; transfictionality; rewriting; mediation; didactics; second language
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/3644

This article deals with the exploitation of picture-books in second language classes. As well as allowing pupils to acquire lexical, grammatical and phonological knowledge, they also help them build an intercultural competence: picture-books are therefore mediative in two ways. The question is whether those books can really be exploited as literary texts. A look at the work of researchers in literature and transfictionality will help us analyse what relationships are at stake between books and their readers and see if these relationships can be exploited at school. Can “rewriting” stories, as is done in a second language class in an action-oriented approach, enable pupils in turn to become mediators?