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In:Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives
Edited by Richard Smith and Tim Giesler
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 20] 2023
► pp. 82–103

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Chapter 5
La linguistique appliquée

Innovation in language learning/teaching research in France (1955–85)

 | Université Côte d’Azur
Published online: 27 June 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.20.05why
Abstract
At the creation of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA) in 1964, the new field of applied linguistics was marked by international collaboration on second and foreign language teaching among linguists in the US, the UK, and France. Over six decades later, while applied linguistics is a well-established discipline around the world, la linguistique appliquée is a much less common term in France. Research on FL teaching is called la didactique des langues [language didactics] and involves language teaching theories drawing more on education theory than applied linguistics. This paper explores the reasons for this French exception, focusing on its theoretical underpinnings, institutional foundations and acceptance by teachers and teacher educators in mid 20th-century France as compared to other founding countries of AILA.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • L’Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA): A common élan
    • La Linguistique appliquée and “linguistics applied”
    • The emergence of LA in France and AL in the US and the UK
    • Institutional developments
    • Scholarly associations
    • Language teaching and teacher education
    • Scholarly publications
  • Contours of la linguistique appliquée and the separate development of SLA
    • The new linguistics of Antoine Culioli
    • AFLA and ATALA: Bernard Quemada and Bernard Pottier
    • Developing research in teaching foreign languages: Robert Galisson
    • Second Language Acquisition: The ESF Project coordinated by Clive Perdue
  • Some conclusions and implications for the French language education landscape
    • Theoretical considerations
    • Institutional concerns
    • Language teaching and teacher education
  • Notes
  • References
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