Repetitions and reformulations – constants of the teaching activity in the FFL (French as a foreign language) class

Abstract

By dint of analyzing a teacher speeches corpus collected in the language class, in the city of Constantza, we aim to identify and examine the constants that define the portrait of the model teacher in today's society, in a very specific context: the city of Constantza nowadays. Based on the abundance of repetitions and reformulations in our corpus, the aim of this communication is to identify the role of repetitions and reformulations in the teaching-learning process; to classify them according to certain criteria; to present the conclusions of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the corpus. By analyzing the repetitions and reformulations used in class, we expect to find the common points of teaching practices with a view to their modeling for the training of future teachers.