Dialogic semiotics : theoretical groundwork for re-designing the syllabus in french as a foreign language for UiTM bachelor-candidates / Patrick Tourchon

• Main Author: Tourchon, Patrick
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak 2003
• Subjects: L Education (General); LB Theory and practice of education; LG Individual institutions
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/44772/1/44772.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/44772/

The methods for teaching French as a Foreign Language are quite numerous, using books, audiocassettes, videos, CDs and CD-Roms. Moreover, since 1971, they all have been learner-centred, communicationbased and interactive-wise. In this context, it is not clear why UiTM should need an in-house method for its Bachelor-candidate students. The following article therefore argues that UiTM could be the right institution for pioneering a method based, not on (structural or generative) linguistics, but on dialogic semiotics, an original integrative approach combining the works of Peirce (1948), Bakhtin (1971), Petbfi (1975), Hymes (1992) and Eco (1990).