The Intercultural Approach in Teaching French as a Foreign Language: Humorous Discourse and Francophone Literature of Immigration

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to answer the questions raised by our evaluation, as an examiner of PhD dissertations dealing with the intercultural approach in the teaching ofFrench as a foreign language in the Algerian context. First, an account of our analysis of PhD dissertations will be introduced. Second, two examples that canreflect a effective implementation of the intercultural approach in teaching French, as a foreign language will be recommended. These include on the one hand the exploitation of humorous speech and on the other hand the Francophone literature resulting from immigration.