COVID vs. REAL FLU — CADIX C’EST FINI

CULTURE IN TEACHING

WHAT’S MORE, FOREIGN LANGUAGES,

HAS LITTLE TO DO, AND YET A LOT TO DO,

WITH ERIN MEYER’S “CULTURE”

Since 2010 I have only taught professional adults within their professional orientation, and it was directly articulated in their work and careers. It is in private circumstances and institutions that I have found the highest level of available means for the students, and the desire to innovate in the foreign language I was teaching, an innovation that had to do with the way the particular subject was taught (objectives, competencies, topics, and subjects). But it also had to do with the general procedure targeted in the simple act of teaching which was evolving away from teaching = transmitting knowledge from the teacher to the students to get everyday day or year closer to self-learning = the students have to find the knowledge they need, extract it from where it is and assimilate it into their own knowledge, and this with all the means they have at their disposal, absolutely all, with no limitations. And what’s more, they wanted to have an important say in the topics and subjects they wanted to study.

This evolution is of course all the more visible and important within professional…