Learning is a process that involves both cognitive and emotional aspects. However, most of the research in education in South Africa tend to focus only on the cognitive side of learning and neglects the very important, emotional side. The consequences of this neglect lie most prominently with migrant learners, especially as the immigration process itself involves high emotional strain, cultural adjustment, and most obvious language barriers. These can negatively influence the learning process. Therefore, if existing teaching practices do not cater for the complexity of a multicultural and multilingual classroom or the emotional needs of migrant learners, the learning process of these learners is likely to be stunted. This thesis is concerned with the role of the emotions in the learning contexts of migrant learners in Cape Town and the strategies used by teachers to manage this. With this in mind, this study looks at the affective aspects of learning in teaching literacy to migrant learners from the Congo in the context of an English-medium school in Cape Town, South Africa. Using a qualitative case study approach, I focused on two layers of the issue. First, I explored the experience of Congolese learners and their emotional needs in an English language and literacy class. With this first layer, I compared the needs between French and English-speaking learners to explore how emotional needs played out in the classroom setting using interviews and observation. I used Krashen's affective filter theory as a lens to understand learners' feelings in the classroom environment. Second, I investigated classroom-teaching styles, in particular, how two Grade 3 teachers incorporated affective strategies in their pedagogy. I conducted this analysis through sociocultural understandings of literacy, using the principles of affective pedagogy. The findings were that English-speaking learners, receiving instructions in English, were less likely to suffer from emotional stress and anxiety in their learning than French-speaking learners learning in English. The French-speaking Congolese learners reported that they experienced emotional distress and anxiety, which affected their literacy learning. Not only were learners experiencing difficulties, but teachers too felt limited in their capacity to deal with learners' emotional needs as the cognitive approach for teaching literacy did not meet the needs nor context of migrant learners. Therefore, teachers felt they were required to go above and beyond what would be considered normal classroom activities to create a holistic learning environment that caters to a learner's emotional challenges, which was not always possible in the context of a prescriptive CAPs curriculum and resources. In this study, I argue that when children learn in a language that is different from their first language, this poses an emotional challenge, which often impacts the learning process. This emotional challenge is likely to be compounded by the circumstances that migrant learners often find themselves in. Therefore, I argue that for children to learn effectively (successfully) in a language that is different from their mother tongue, their emotional needs must be met first. This implies that for literacy learning to be most effective (successful), teachers may take into consideration the emotional aspects of each learner and develop their teaching styles according to the diverse needs of the learners. This study will benefit teachers in multilingual contexts as it takes into consideration the emotional difficulties that come with learning in a language that is not one's primary language, to understand learners' learning styles, and consequently to inform and adjust teaching strategies to fit their needs. The findings suggest a need for teacher training that takes into consideration the affective and cognitive needs of learners from diverse backgrounds, such as migrant learners, for more effective literacy and language education. .

This thesis explores the effectiveness of a professional education model that was specifically developed for on-the-job training to assist seven child care trainees in six Child Care Centres in Queensland, Australia, to develop the competencies, motives, strategies and processes required to become expert educarers of pre-school age children. The intervention, which took place over 65 days, was implemented by six expert educarers who had previously been trained in using the Zone of Proximal Development (socio-cultural theory) to extend both the adult and the child learner’s development. The educarers were asked to assist the trainees’ demonstration of motives, strategies, and processes during daily activities, and the educarers and trainees were asked to assist the children’s demonstration of competencies in daily activities through the Zone of Proximal Development. As mass training for child care workers in group child care is still a relatively new phenomenon in Australia, and as little research has addressed both an adult and child learner’s demonstration of competencies in the workplace with a permanent work-based instructor interacting through the Zone of Proximal Development, qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysing the data were chosen. These approaches present both a descriptive and a measured analysis of the day-to-day operations in which the training occurred. The study aimed to generate substantive theoretical ideas by extending socio-cultural theory (Tharp & Gallimore, 1988) with Activity Theory (Leont’ev, 1979), Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and Cognitive Apprenticeship (Brown, Collins & Duguid, 1989). Data collection occurred through questionnaires at three periods of the study, through pre- and post-training Semantic Differentials, through the trainees’ daily journals and the professional tutors’ comments, and the educarers’ weekly and monthly reports. The study provides a triangulated perspective of two foci. The primary focus was on the changing relationship of the trainees with the educarers during the training programme, and whether this led to a converging understanding and the development of an evolving, mutual meaning structure. The perspectives are the trainees, the educarers, and their joint interactions. The personal experiences of the trainees as observers and participants in the day to day activities of the centre are interwoven with the modelling and assistance of the educarers and demonstration of the children. The results revealed that some of the trainees’ relationships with some of the educarers changed over three phases. These changes demonstrated that, in Phase I, the trainees observed and practiced activities under the supervision of the educarers who instructed them what to do and why, and discussed parents, as they started to develop a mutual meaning structure. Their relationship reflected that of a novice-expert. In Phase II the seven trainees acted independently, planning and implementing minor activities, still under the educarer’s supervision however. In this phase the educarers modelled, observed, and commented on the trainees’ performance, as an evolving mutual meaning structure that reflected an aspiring expert-expert relationship developed. Three trainees attained only Phase II, while the other four continued into Phase III. In Phase III, the four trainees planned and implemented major activities independently while the educarers observed and commented on their performance and engaged jointly in tasks. Their relationships, which evidenced a developing and evolving mutual meaning structure reflecting a converging understanding, became collaborative for one dyad, one educarer perceived the relationship was collaborative and the trainee perceived it to be an aspiring expert-expert, while the other two dyads demonstrated an expert-expert relationship. It appears that the trainees, who experienced education motives with various strategies and processes implemented by the educarers through the ZPD in the training programme, demonstrated the greatest change in the relationships. For these trainees the peripherality of participation changed from Phase I, operating at the outer peripherality of the child care practice to operating closer to the centre of the practice in Phase II. The four trainees who transitioned to the centre of the practice in Phase III experienced educarers who exhibited consistent motives with flexible strategies and processes combining a wide variety of interactions through the ZPD. Emerging from the data, a dominant authentic activity, and a secondary aspect of this study was classroom management in general and morally acceptable behaviour (MAB) in particular. The dominance of this activity reinforces Tharp and Gallimore’s (1988) finding that classroom management was the most stressful activity for first year teachers. The trainees’ appropriation of the motives, strategies and processes in episodes of morally acceptable behaviour as modelled by the educarers, showed, over the study, a convergence of understanding and the development of an evolving mutual meaning structure between the dyads. The second focus of the study provides a triangulated perspective on the changes in the relationship between the trainees and children during the training programme. The trainees’ and children’s demonstration of competencies in morally acceptable behaviour is also addressed in this section: the perspectives are the trainees, the educarers and joint trainee-child interactions. The results reveal that the trainees’ relationship with children changed over the three Phases of the training programme. With a minor focus on children in Phase I, the trainees observed and practiced implementing activities demonstrating a novice-novice relationship. In Phase II, increasing their focus on children, the trainees took responsibility in minor activities demonstrating an aspiring expert-novice relationship. However in Phase III, with a dominant focus on children, expert-novice relationships were apparent. The four competencies developed for trainees to facilitate the children’s demonstration of competencies in morally acceptable behaviour, discussing feelings and discussing actions, and showing verbal and non-verbal empathy, were acquired and used by the trainees who experienced education motives in the training programme, in Phases II and III. Concurrently, the children developed and increased their competencies in verbal and non-verbal acceptance of the interventions, and showed increased understanding of cause and effect and the ability to formulate hypotheses. Changes were also evidenced in the trainees’ conceptual understanding of educaring children as they integrated the concepts of discipline and control with three other essentials of educaring (caring, teaching and learning), into their conceptual understanding of educaring over the study. The development of an evolving, mutual meaning structure of the authentic activities that were practiced in the child care centres, showed a converging understanding was being established between educarers, trainees and children. There was also evidence of reciprocal assistance. Influence, assistance and teaching were not a one-way process. They did not flow in one direction only, from professional tutor to educarer to trainee to child. The child in turn influenced the trainee who influenced the educarer who influenced the professional tutor.

Ce travail comporte un aperçu de la théorie des positionnements, la construction d’une méthodologie adaptée à l’analyse des interactions, et l’application de cette méthodologie aux interactions de classe.Celle-ci est réalisée à partir de transcriptions d’enregistrements audio-vidéo de 15 heures de leçons en mathématiques et en physique/sciences en Angleterre et en France. Les élèves avaient entre 11 et 12 ans. Ces transcriptions sont divisées en épisodes, c’est-à-dire en unités cohérentes quant à leur thème et à leur enjeu. Puis, chaque épisode est codé selon les comportements observés pour le professeur. Les catégories de comportement trouvées pour l’interaction plénière de classe sont comparables à celles trouvées par d’autres travaux de recherche sur le travail en groupe. Une analyse réalisée afin de déterminer les types de comportement (considérés en tant que droits et devoirs) qui apparaissent simultanément indique que deux droits apparaissent souvent simultanément : poser une question scientifique et valider une proposition. Ceci est cohérent avec les résultats d’autres travaux de recherche, qui indiquent la prédominance des séquences IRE/IRF.Une étude de la fréquence de ces comportements met en évidence la rareté d’affirmations indépendantes par le professeur. Une analyse des épisodes qui contiennent de telles affirmations indique que le professeur n’introduit de nouveaux éléments en se reposant sur sa propre autorité que dans des cas particuliers : (a) suite à l’erreur d’un élève, auquel cas l’affirmation se limite à expliquer l’erreur, (b) suite à la question d’un élève, ou (c) suite à l’affirmation non invitée d’un élève. Les contenus introduits de cette manière semblent être considérés légitimes plus longtemps que ceux qui sont introduits en faisant référence à une source officielle.Les conséquences de ces résultats sont abordées : il semble désormais nécessaire de considérer l’agence des élèves lors de futurs travaux de recherche ; et il est possible qu’un style d’enseignement magistral puisse bénéficier à l’apprentissage. / This work consists in a theoretical overview of positioning theory, the construction of a methodology for interaction analysis, and its application to classroom interaction.The latter part is based on transcripts from audio-video recordings of 15 hours of lessons in mathematics and physics or science in England and in France, with children aged between 11 and 12. These transcripts were divided up into episodes, units displaying coherence in theme and purpose; and each episode was coded according to the types of behaviour the teacher displayed in them. The same types of behaviour were found in plenary interaction as those found by previous research into group work. Analysis carried out to highlight co-occurring types of behaviour (seen as rights and duties) only yielded two co-occurring rights – asking a scientific question and validating a statement, consistently with the previously noted prevalence of IRE/IRF sequences.A frequency analysis of the levels of occurrence of individual types of behaviour highlighted the scarcity of unsupported teacher statements. Further analysis of the episodes featuring teacher statements showed that the teacher may only introduce new elements on the basis of their own authority in highly specific circumstances: (a) after a student’s mistake, in which case the teacher’s statement is limited to explaining why the aforementioned mistake is one; (b) after a student’s question or (c) after a student’s unsolicited statement. In the last two cases, the teacher’s statement may go beyond the remit of the question or statement. Content introduced in such a way appears to have a longer-lasting legitimacy than that introduced with the help of official content.Some implications of these results are discussed: the need to take into account student agency in further research; and it is suggested that a lecturing style of teaching might be beneficial for learning.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Madeline Gurgel Barreto Maia.pdf: 1470959 bytes, checksum: 4170079d7be7ef5c265bda291ffd4def (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-13 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research investigated aspects related to the process of Mathematical Literacy from research in Brazilian Mathematical Literacy, which are demanded by government publications from 1996 to 2012. We used a qualitative approach, gathering research in websites which addressed the process of alphabetization in Mathematics in the period mentioned. As we sought to know the process of Mathematical Literacy in these open publications, we found that the ideas of authors like Ole Skovsmose, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, Ocsana Danyluk and Maria da Conceição Ferreira Fonseca Reis were mainly presented and discussed as theoretical references, which we compared. In the perspective of Ole Skovsmose, Mathematical Literacy goes beyond the individual acquisition of codes and the ability to calculate and use formal mathematical techniques. On the other hand, Mathematical Literacy in the view of Ubiratan D'Ambrosio is linked primarily to the reflection of cultural knowledge come from communities or social groups. Danyluk brings reading and writing of mathematical language, allied to the sense and meaning of knowledge as central to the process of Mathematical Literacy, which also includes speaking and listening. E, Fonseca presents Mother Tongue Education as linked to the domain of codes and symbols in the process of reading and writing. It brings yet another proposal which is Mathematical Literacy. In it are embedded forms of usage, goals, values, beliefs, attitudes, and roles related to numerical writing, ways of quantifying, ordering, measuring and classifying. We believe that the authors bring the mathematical contents, domain of codes and symbols, as well as reading and writing of mathematical language as fundamental aspects of the process of Mathematical Literacy. However, these aspects need to be directly linked to the learning context, be it social, cultural, political, economic, cognitive or mathematical. The ideas presented relate the processes of Alphabetization and Literacy in Mathematics and Mother Tongue. Mathematical Literacy may have restricted character in Mother Tongue Literacy when considering the domain of codes and symbols, reading, and writing as essential. However, such a proposal can be considered limited because it reduces the initial mathematical learning to certain technical fields. We understand that Mathematical Literacy goes far beyond this vision. It has features similar to Alphabetization proposals in the perspective of Literacy, when the content, an essential aspect of the process at issue is seen and worked within a context, be the latter mathematical, cultural, social, political, etc. and adequate to what is heard from the speech of children and captured from their records. In this view, it is not possible to read and write mathematical language without the context directly related to the origin of knowledge in development, bringing up the culture of children combined with historical perspectives of production of that knowledge / Esta pesquisa investigou aspectos concernentes ao processo de Alfabetização Matemática, a partir de estudos em Educação Matemática brasileiros, que são demandados por publicações governamentais do período de 1996 a 2012. Para tanto, utilizamos a abordagem qualitativa, levantando em sítios eletrônicos, pesquisas que tratavam do processo de Alfabetização em Matemática no período ora citado. Ao buscarmos conhecer o processo de Alfabetização Matemática nessas publicações abertas, percebemos que preponderantemente as ideias de autores como Ole Skovsmose, Ubiratan D Ambrósio, Ocsana Danyluk e Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis Fonseca foram apresentadas e discutidas como referências teóricas, as quais comparamos. Na perspectiva de Ole Skovsmose, a Alfabetização Matemática vai além da aquisição individual de códigos e da habilidade para calcular e usar técnicas matemáticas formais. Já a Alfabetização Matemática na visão de Ubiratan D Ambrósio está vinculada primordialmente à reflexão de conhecimentos culturais advindos de comunidades ou grupos sociais. Danyluk traz a leitura e a escrita da linguagem matemática, aliadas ao sentido e significado do conhecimento como pontos centrais no processo de Alfabetização Matemática, que incluem também a oralidade e a escuta. E, Fonseca apresenta a Alfabetização em Língua Materna, como vinculada ao domínio de códigos e símbolos no processo de leitura e escrita. Traz ainda uma outra proposta que é o Letramento Matemático. Nela, estão embutidas formas de uso, objetivos, valores, crenças, atitudes e papéis ligados a escrita numérica, formas de quantificar, ordenar, medir e classificar. Consideramos que os autores trazem os conteúdos matemáticos, o domínio de códigos e símbolos, bem como a leitura e escrita da linguagem matemática como aspectos fundamentais ao processo de Alfabetização Matemática. No entanto, tais aspectos precisam estar diretamente vinculados ao contexto de aprendizagem, seja ele social, cultural, político, econômico, cognitivo ou matemático. As ideias apresentadas relacionam os processos de Alfabetização e Letramento em Matemática e Língua Materna. A Alfabetização Matemática pode ter caráter restrito da Alfabetização em Língua Materna quando se considera o domínio de códigos e símbolos, a leitura e a escrita como essenciais. No entanto, tal proposta pode ser considerada limitada, pois reduz a aprendizagem matemática inicial a determinados domínios técnicos. Entendemos que a Alfabetização Matemática, vai muito além desta visão. Ela tem caraterísticas próximas das propostas de Alfabetização na perspectiva do Letramento, quando o conteúdo, aspecto essencial do processo em questão, é visto e trabalhado dentro de um contexto, podendo ser este último matemático, cultural, social e político e é adequado ao que se escuta das falas das crianças e se capta de seus registros. Nesta visão, não é possível ler e escrever a linguagem matemática sem o contexto diretamente relacionado à origem do conhecimento em desenvolvimento, de modo a trazer à tona a cultura das crianças, aliada a perspectivas históricas de produção desse conhecimento

Student engagement is a determinant for students' academic success, readiness for higher education, and social agency. The purpose of this qualitative, case study was to explore ninth grade students' perceptions of the contextual and psychological factors that influence the development of student engagement profiles. The ecological systems theory was used as the framework for the study. Through purposive sampling, 15 participants were selected, and 5 groups of 3 were formed based on participants' engagement profiles as identified by cooperating teachers' categorization and the results of the Student Engagement Instrument. Using semi structured interviews, data were gathered for the 4 research questions. Iterative content analysis of interview data identified 7 emergent themes that underscored the relative importance of parental support, teacher's mood and behavior, peer relationship, and a sense of justice and safety in the classroom as factors that promote multidimensional engagement patterns. These findings may influence students, parents, teachers, counselors, administrators, community members, and organizations to create spaces, and develop practices and policies that would provide environments and relationships that enhance students' emotional, behavioral, and cognitive engagement with school and schoolwork, especially for students who might be on the verge of disengaging from school.

Orientador: Linda Gentry El Dash / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudo da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T01:11:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Taves_Leila_M.pdf: 981213 bytes, checksum: 244a07090e9545a836fbe045408e0254 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O principal objetivo deste estudo é verificar quais as percepções de estudantes de Ensino Médio em duas escolas particulares no Estado de São Paulo acerca da aprendizagem do Inglês como língua estrangeira em contextos informais, isto é, fora da sala de aula. Os diferentes pontos de vista desses estudantes foram identificados através do uso da Metodologia "Q". A partir de discussões em grupos focais, foram selecionadas 57 afirmações sobre o tema proposto para compor a Amostra "Q". A Distribuição "Q" foi, então, feita por 65 participantes e foram identificados cinco pontos de vista distintos. Os sujeitos do primeiro ponto de vista, os "Valorizadores da Prática", são pessoas que acreditam na prática da língua de variadas maneiras. Os sujeitos do segundo ponto de vista, os "Valorizadores da Comunicação", acreditam que é através da comunicação em viagens para fora do país que se aprende Inglês. Os sujeitos do terceiro ponto de vista, os "Valorizadores da Autonomia", valorizam sua própria autonomia e rejeitam veementemente atividades de caráter obrigatório. Os sujeitos do quarto ponto de vista, os "Externamente Motivados", necessitam de um encorajamento externo e, portanto, valorizam a educação formal e o compromisso com a escola. Os sujeitos do quinto ponto de vista, os "Valorizadores do Esforço", creem principalmente no esforço pessoal e na força de vontade para a aprendizagem da língua. Concluímos que os "Valorizadores da Prática" e os "Valorizadores do Esforço" valorizam o uso de Estratégias de Aprendizagem, enquanto que os "Valorizadores da Autonomia" e os "Externamente Motivados" se apóiam em questões de Motivação. Os "Valorizadores da Comunicação" percebem tanto o valor das Estratégias, como também o da Motivação para a aprendizagem da LE Inglês fora da sala de aula / Abstract: The main objective of this study is to verify perceptions of High School students in two private schools located in São Paulo about learning English as a foreign language in informal learning contexts, i.e. outside the classroom. Five different points of view were identified through the use of "Q" Methodology. The 57 statements making up the "Q" Sample were extracted from discussions in focal groups. "Q" Sorting was conducted by 65 students, and five distinct points of view resulted from the factor analysis of the answers. The "Practicing Learners" are students who believe that there are many ways to learn English outside the classroom, for seeing practice in various different forms leads to learning. The "Communicative Learners" feel English can be learned by speaking it while traveling abroad. The "Autonomous Learners" value their autonomy and reject activities they are required to do. The "Externally Motivated Learners" value the responsibilities and motivation furnished by formal education and their commitment to school. The "Hardworking Learners" recognize the importance of personal effort and willpower in learning the language. We concluded that the "Practicing Learners" and the "Hardworking Learners" value the use of Learning Strategies, while the "Autonomous Learners" and the "Externally Motivated Learners" are more influenced by Motivation. The "Communicative Learners" feel a need for both Learning Strategies and Motivation to learn English as a foreign language outside the classroom / Mestrado / Linguistica Aplicada / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

本文以敘事研究的方式，透過深入訪談，探討一位台灣語言學習者的自主動能（learner agency）與其學習環境之互動。經由敘事訪談（narrative interview）、開放式訪談、半結構訪談以及分析受訪者社群網站發表之文章，本論文意圖呈現台灣語言學習者在不同學習環境中如何表現自主動能。 本研究以受訪者Erin出國留學為分界，共三個階段：第一階段為受訪者出國前（2014/08/25），以敘事訪談（narrative interview）的方式，Erin完整呈現自我對英語的認知與語言學習歷程之掙扎。第二階段為Erin出國以後，藉由開放式與半結構訪談，描繪出Erin在國外求學的經驗，並更深刻探討過去的語言學習歷程。第三階段為Erin回國後(2015/09/17)，再次以敘事訪談的方式，Erin反思英國求學的經驗以及英語在其人生中扮演的角色。 本研究以vam Lier所提之自主動能的三個特色為分析框架，並推衍出兩項申明：其一，台灣英語學習者在正式的語言學習環境中面臨許多挑戰，但學習者仍有表現自主動能的空間，表現方式包括逃避或拒絕學習；其二，學習者若能沈浸於語言習得的環境（foreign language acquisition environments），極有可能脫離正式語言學習環境的框架而成為一個不同於以往的自己。本研究檢視學習者在不同的學習環境中如何展現自主動能，筆者期望研究結果可提供語言教師看待語言學習者一個新視角。 / Drawing on the concept of learner agency, a narrative inquiry was conducted in order to achieve an in-depth, qualitative understanding of the interplay between a Taiwanese learner's exert of agency and various contexts. The study was developed in three phases, and multiple number of interviews were the main instrument for data collection. The first interview was conducted in August, 2014, before the participant, Erin, headed for England to pursue a Master's degree. The following interviews documented her life experiences abroad and further explored her past language learning history. The final interview was conducted in September, 2015 after she came back to Taiwan, in which she reflected on her overall study abroad experiences and the role of English in her life. The findings delineated Erin's English learning story and her agency domestically and internationally. van Lier's proposal of core features of learner agency was used as the analytic framework to discuss Erin's story, and later two assertions were derived from the discussion: (1) Being an EFL learner in the Taiwanese formal educational context may involve many challenges, but the learner still has room to exercise his or her agency-even though this could mean avoiding or rejecting learning, and (2) Fully engaged in a foreign language environment, the learner is likely to break away from the limitations of formal English learning system. The study delineates a close examination on how the language learner interacted with various contexts and demonstrates several considerations TESOL practitioners can take. Based on the findings and the discussion, pedagogical implications as well as suggestions for future research are also provided at the end of the thesis.

Fondée sur le postulat qu’en didactique des langues, les pratiques pédagogiques se trouvent profondément marquées par la variation, la présente recherche pose que ces variations et leurs facteurs s’expliquent par des cultures éducatives et linguistiques divergentes en présence. A travers l’analyse comparée de textes officiels, de manuels et de témoignages d’enseignants au Canada, on se propose d’illustrer la thèse selon laquelle des traditions d’enseignement différentes pour le français et l’anglais enseignées comme langues secondes peuvent émerger dans les discours sur l’enseignement des langues secondes dans ce pays. Ces traditions viendraient ainsi y poser la question d’une culture éducative et didactique commune et partagée. / Starting from the premise that practical language teaching is deeply characterized by variations,this research suppose that face to face and divergent educational and linguistic cultures canexplain these variations and their factors. Through a comparative analysis of Canadian officialtexts, textbooks and teachers’ discourses, we aim to show that divergent teaching traditionsbetween French and English as second language can appear in the discourses about secondlanguage teaching in this country. In this way, these traditions could ask the question about acommon and shared educational and teaching culture in Canada.

En matière de politique linguistique et éducative, l’Algérie a été confrontée à des problèmes de choix d’orientation. D’une part, le système éducatif s’est trouvé face à des différents problèmes d’ordre politique et idéologique et d’autre part, les différentes communautés cherchaient à s’affirmer dans une société favorable aux échanges internationaux et hostile à certaines pratiques réductrices menaçant les langues, les cultures tout en induisant de nouveaux comportements sociaux. Pour rendre compte de ses problèmes, deux questions ont été posées : « comment les gouvernements successifs ont-ils géré la diversité des langues dans le système éducatif ? Quelles étaient leurs idéologies »? Pour répondre à ces questions, un état des lieux du paysage linguistique dans et en dehors du système éducatif, notamment sous l’impulsion des travaux du conseil de l’Europe, a été élaboré. Pour cerner l’opinion publique, une étude quantitative réalisée par nos soins met l’accent sur les attitudes et les représentations sociales qu’ont les personnes interrogées en vers le plurilinguisme. Ceci permettra d’entrevoir les perspectives réelles et concrètes pour une éducation plurilingue pluriculturelle dans le futur. / In the subject of politic linguistic and educational, the Algeria was confronted with the problems of orientation choices. With one part, the educational system was found to face different political and ideological problems and with other side, the different communities were searched to assert themselves in a favorable international trade company and hostile to certain practices that reduce threatening to languages, cultures while inducing new social behaviors. To account for its problems, two questions were asked: “How the successive governments have managed the diversity of languages in the educational system? What were their ideologies?” To answer these questions an overview of the linguistic landscape within and outside the educational system, notably under the impetus of the work of the Europe council has been developed. To identify the public opinion, a quantitative study conducted by us focuses on attitudes and the social representations that respondents in multilingualism. This will allow a glimpse of the real and concrete perspective for a multicultural multilingual education in the future.