Promoting plurilingual and technology-mediated education : focus on a European project as a case study

Plurilingualism is favoured by the Council of Europe. This statement also applies to didactics. Plurilingual approaches are now highlighted and recommended in education. However, these approaches are not well implemented in the Belgian education system. A European project, called the project TEMPLATE, is actively trying to promote plurilingual approaches as well as technology-mediated activities, to offer innovative ways to teach. This project will be used as an illustrative case for this dissertation. The present dissertation has two aims. The first one is to discover and analyse representations following both plurilingual approaches and the use of technology when teaching. This is done through a survey conducted by the project TEMPLATE. This analysis will provide clues to effectively promote plurilingual approaches and the use of technology-mediated activities. The second aim is to offer examples of lessons that are in line with what was discussed during the first part of this thesis. The lessons listed come from the project TEMPLATE's Moodle page, but one was also entirely created for this dissertation. Ways to adapt these lessons to the context of the Belgian education system are also provided. The present dissertation is my second one presented within the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters. In accordance with the Modern Languages and Literatures’ Jury, this master dissertation therefore accounts for a limited number of credits, which means that its size is smaller than my previous one.