L'autre jour j'ai voulu faire goûter à mes élèves de seconde du pâté de foie gras qu'une gentille collègue m'a offert. Un peu au hasard j'ai cherché sur youtube pour voir comment on le prépare. J'avais vu quelque chose sur une émission de Rick Stein où on donnait à manger aux oies. Ce n'était pas trop dégoûtant. Mais il semble que la production du foie gras soit parfois plus désagréable (c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire). Attention, ça risque de choquer certains.
For this post, I am drawing on a section from the excellent book by Rod Ellis and Natsuko Shintani called Exploring Language Pedagogy through Second Language Acquisition Research (Routledge, 2014). Skill acquisition is one of several competing theories of how we learn new languages. It’s a theory based on the idea that skilled behaviour in any area can become routinised and even automatic under certain conditions through repeated pairing of stimuli and responses. When put like that, it looks a bit like the behaviourist view of stimulus-response learning which went out of fashion from the late 1950s. Skill acquisition draws on John Anderson’s ACT theory, which he called a cognitivist stimulus-response theory. ACT stands for Adaptive Control of Thought. ACT theory distinguishes declarative knowledge (knowledge of facts and concepts, such as the fact that adjectives agree) from procedural knowledge (knowing how to do things in certain situations, such as understand and speak a langua...
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