Teacher beliefs about teaching French as a foreign language in a Chinese university: a multilingual perspective

Zhibin Shan; Hao Xu

doi:10.30827/portalin.viVIII.29247

Autores/as

Zhibin Shan BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY / SORBONNE UNIVERSITY
Hao Xu BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.viVIII.29247

Palabras clave:

creencia del profesor, francés como lengua extranjera, enseñanza de idiomas, enseñanza del francés, multilingüismo

Resumen

Si bien el francés es un idioma europeo importante que se enseña en las universidades chinas, no se sabe mucho sobre las creencias de los profesores de francés sobre su enseñanza como lengua extranjera, particularmente no desde una perspectiva multilingüe. Adoptando un diseño de casos múltiples, este estudio examinó las creencias de 5 profesores de francés sobre el idioma francés y el alumno. Al analizar los datos recopilados a través de entrevistas, el estudio reveló que las creencias de los docentes no reflejaban ni el panorama lingüístico de la lengua francesa ni el nivel actual de multilingüismo del alumno. Sin embargo, la ideología monolingüe de los docentes, que se refleja en tales creencias, parecía coexistir con las creencias que reflejaban su ideología multilingüe: el capital cultural aportado por el aprendizaje del francés como lengua extranjera prevalecía en las creencias de los profesores sobre el idioma con referencia al valor del aprendizaje del francés en la futura comunicación internacional de los estudiantes en un mundo multilingüe; los profesores también percibían a sus estudiantes como estudiantes de francés con experiencia en el aprendizaje del inglés que podría ayudar al aprendizaje del francés.

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FUNDING INFORMATION. This research was funded by “Research on the Innovation of Foreign Language Education in China” (grant number: 22JJD740011), a major project of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences under the Ministry of Education, as well as supported by the Beijing Foreign Studies University “Double First-Class” Fund (project title: “Construction of Standards for Foreign Language Education and Foreign Language Talents Training in Higher Education”, project number: 2022SYLZD010).