Variations on the theme of social action 

in didactics of foreign languages and cultures

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Contents

Introduction

1. “Social action”, a central concept of a new general orientation in the didactics of languages and cultures

2. The learning action as a social action

3. Social action as learning

4. The act of use in the language classroom: from simulation to convention

5. The learning act and the teaching act, functionally artificial acts

6. Acting with language: from the "authentic" support document to the "manufactured" work document

7. Acting with New Educational Technologies

8. Acting in autonomous use, acting in directed learning

9. Acting on information: from communicative competence to informational competence

10. Acting together for common projects: from interaction to co-action

11. Acting on culture: from intercultural to co-cultural, and from representations to conceptions

12. What training to act as a teacher?

13. Social action among teachers: continuous co-training for "sustainable innovation”

14. Which theories of social action in language-culture didactics?

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix – Historical evolution of didactic configurations