Processus d'acquisition du français langue étrangère et seconde par des groupes d'adultes immigrés d'origines culturelles diverses dans une approche communicative : image culturelle et interlangue

Résumé (en anglais)

This project continues a line of researches in cognitive and intercultural psycholinguistics aiming to clarify the cognitive processes in work during acquisition of a foreign language and/or a bilingual translation. It's centered on the study of the cognitive complexity of the training of French language like a second or foreign language; it is about a comparative study of interferences risks from populations of foreign adults firstly-newcomers in France (practising arabic, armenian, certain asian and african languages) evaluated in two situations of interlocution: with a natural and a virtual subject. The object of study is the analysis of interferences in the oral and written productions in French language according to the cultural image released by the interlocutor: the aim of testing the visual impact stressed by the interactive context on the psycholinguistic and cognitive perceptive faculties of the individuals questioned. The interferences identified constitute indications for the processes psycholinguistics and the intercultural strategies of contact operated by the subjects of the study. Does the cultural and intercultural perception activate certain type of cognitive functioning according to a certain cultural memory? What is the cognitive, psycholinguistic and intercultural risk? The cultural memory can play an essential role in the cognitive processes and the treatment of information at individuals new learners of French as a foreign or second language regarding the chronicity or the reduction of interferences.