Social web sites and applications for tourism: analysis and exploitation in a professionalizing faculty in Vietnam
Author: Toan Vien, The Kanh
Under the direction of: François Mangenot
Grenoble Alpes University
Texte français
Keywords: Language sciences, Vietnam, Social Web, Vocational training, French for tourism, Language didactics, Pedagogical scenario, Bookmark sharing, Languages - Study and teaching.
Abstract
Today, the social web has become a tool for promoting online interactions. Internet users can create, publish and share content there, by going to sites or applications that are part of this participatory web. In language teaching, apart from the frequent unnatural activities offered in textbooks, the teacher, in order to make the most of the participatory dimension of the social web, can propose tasks leading his learners to use the Internet in order to improve their learning. This is the observation made by the author of the thesis during his teaching in Vietnam. This research was carried out with the aim of finding out to what extent the social web can promote the learning of the French tourism module in a professionalizing faculty. Thanks to pedagogical scenarios built from an analysis of supporting documents taken from tourism-oriented websites, tests have been set up as part of the “French for tourism” module. The results obtained, together with those of the surveys carried out with the participating students, made it possible to document certain avenues for exploiting the social web in the service of the teaching/ learning of general French and Professional French Language. In addition, as part of language didactics, this thesis also aims to check if the applied approach can be generalized to other modules that are part of the teaching program of the professional training in question. The approach, qualitative, is of the engineering type : design of scenarios from a pre-pedagogical analysis, test in authentic situation, questionnaires, analysis of productions and interpretation of the feelings of the students.
