La présente recherche porte sur les contextes construits dans les interactions verbales en classe de langue. Ces contextes sont envisagés comme des représentations de la situation mises en discours. Nous proposons une typologie des contextes construits que nous formulons à partir de la notion de « monde discursif ». L’analyse de transcriptions d’enregistrements de cours nous permet de distinguer un ensemble des moyens discursifs que les locuteurs mettent en oeuvre dans la production de tel ou tel type de contexte. En outre, à travers l’analyse des interactions verbales nous mettons en lumière le caractère dynamique de ces constructions discursives. Sur le plan didactique, nous nous intéressons à l’usage des contextes dans l’action réalisée en classe. Dans cette perspective, notre étude est focalisée sur la manière dont les contextes construits par les participants sont intégrés dans la transmission des connaissances, dans la sollicitation professorale et les réponses d’apprenants, ou encore dans l’évaluation. En outre, en nous basant sur l’analyse des commentaires professoraux sur les pratiques d’enseignement, nous formulons quelques réflexions sur la place des contextes – en tant qu’outils didactiques – dans la « cognition professorale ». L’objectif principal de la recherche est la mise en lumière de différentes facettes de l’objet d’étude dans une perspective discursive [approche interactionnelle] et didactique. Notre réflexion théorique s’appuie principalement sur les apports de la pragmatique, de la linguistique interactionnelle, de la microsociologie et de l’analyse du discours. / This research looks at the contexts that are produced in language classroom interactions. These contexts are here considered as verbalized representations of the situation. Typology of such contexts is proposed and founded on the notion of "discourse world." The analysis of transcripts of lesson recordings distinguishes a set of verbal means that speakers use while producing a particular type of context. In addition, the analysis of verbal interactions shows the dynamic nature of these constructions. The uses of contexts in the classroom practice are explored from an educational point of view. In this perspective, this study focuses on how the contexts produced by participants are included in the transmission of knowledge, in teacher solicitations and learners answers, or in the teacher’s feedback. Moreover, the analysis of teacher comments on teaching practices allows a reflection on the role of contexts as teaching tools in the "teacher cognition". The main purpose of the research is to outline different features of this object from interactional and educational perspectives. The study also includes theoretical considerations developed with reference to pragmatics, interactional linguistics, microsociology and discourse analysis.

La thèse étudie les liens entre les pratiques d’enseignement et les pratiques collectives des enseignants, au sein de l’établissement, lors de l’élaboration d’un projet « vie scolaire ». Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une recherche-intervention, répondant à une demande sociale, incluant un accompagnement des acteurs de terrain lors de l’élaboration du projet. Dans ce contexte, nous explicitons la rencontre entre sphère sociale et sphère académique. Pour cette dernière, mobilisant une approche dans laquelle ne dominent ni les structures sociales ni les acteurs, nous proposons d’étudier les pratiques d’enseignement à partir des incidences de leurs contextes. Les pratiques d’enseignement sont envisagées lors d’incidents relatifs à l’ordre scolaire en classe et les pratiques collectives au cours de l’élaboration du projet « vie scolaire ». Nous défendons que les pratiques d’enseignement varient en fonction des phases d’élaboration collective du projet et de l’appartenance des enseignants aux différents groupes de travail. Pour la mise à l’épreuve, nous avons utilisé d’une part une méthodologie dite des « pratiques en récit », fondée sur la narration des incidents à la fois par l’enseignant et par le chercheur et d’autre part une analyse « stratégique » de l’action des groupes de travail. Les résultats montrent que les pratiques de dénouement d’incident pédagogiques (DIP) varient selon l’appartenance des enseignants aux groupes de travail d’élaboration du projet, mais ne dépendent pas uniquement de ces derniers. Les différences repérables relèveraient davantage d’autres facteurs, plutôt que de la participation des enseignants à l’élaboration du projet. Par ailleurs, nous mettons à jour une distribution du pouvoir d’agir des enseignants selon les périodes, entre les pratiques d’enseignement et les pratiques collectives ; un fort investissement dans les unes s’accompagne d’un retrait dans les autres. / The aim of this thesis is to study the links between teaching practices and collective practices of teachers within the institution when developing a "school life" project. We conducted this work as part of a research-action responding to a social demand, and thus accompanied and led the field actors in the elaboration of the project. In this context, we explain the meeting of social sphere and an academic sphere. For the latter, involving an approach that does not dominate the social structures nor the actors, we propose an interpretative balance between teaching practices and the impact of their contexts. Teaching practices are envisaged in incidents related to the order in class and collective practices during the development of the "school life" project. We propose that teaching practices vary depending on collective project development phases and the participation of teachers in different working groups. For testing, we used on one hand a methodology of "narrative practices" based on the narration of incidents by both the teacher and the researcher and on the other hand a "strategic analysis " of the action of the working groups. The results show that the practices of outcome of pedagogical incident (DIP) vary according to the membership of teachers in project development working groups, but do not depend solely on them. The identifiable differences arise more from other factors, rather than teachers' participation in the development of the project. Furthermore, we update a distribution of the teachers’ power to act between teaching practices and collective practices; a strong investment in one is accompanied by a diminished on the other.

En France, les travaux portant sur la pédagogie universitaire et se focalisant plus particulièrement sur les pratiques pédagogiques des enseignants sont peu nombreux. Aussi ce travail se propose-t-il d’approfondir ce concept sous deux aspects. Le premier axe s’articule autour de la description des pratiques mises en œuvre par les enseignants lors des cours magistraux en première année universitaire. A l’appui de l’observation in situ des pratiques de 49 enseignants issus de cinq filières, il est montré que celles-ci reposent en grande majorité sur les méthodes « traditionnelles ». Néanmoins, les résultats permettent également de mettre en lumière une variété des pratiques. Le second axe a trait à la mise au jour des implications de ces pratiques sur la scolarité des étudiants. Pour cela, ont été interrogés par questionnaires 734 étudiants de première année issus de ces mêmes filières. Il est d’abord montré que les « pratiques déclarées » par les étudiants, autrement dit l’opinion qu’ils portent à l’égard des pratiques des enseignants, influent particulièrement sur leur motivation, tandis que l’effet sur les manières d’étudier est toutes choses égales par ailleurs non significatif. Elles exercent de surcroît un impact modéré sur la réussite. La motivation apparaît néanmoins comme une variable médiatrice de l’effet des pratiques « déclarées » sur les manières d’étudier et la réussite. Parallèlement à ces analyses, est examiné l’effet des pratiques « observées » sur la scolarité des étudiants. Celles-ci jouent un rôle direct significatif dans l’explication des manières d’étudier et de la réussite des étudiants, tandis qu’aucun effet significatif sur la motivation n’est mis au jour. / In France, there is little research on university teaching and focusing specifically on teaching practices. This present research aims to explore this concept in two different ways. The first part focuses on the description of the practices implemented by teachers during first-year university lectures. Using in situ observation of lecture practices of 49 teachers from five programmes, we first show that teachers’ practices mostly rely on traditional methods as defined by Bru (2006). However, we show a variety of practices among teachers. The second part of this research updates our knowledge of the implications of these practices on student studies. 734 freshmen from these sectors were interviewed by questionnaire. We see first that the " declared practices " by the students, or in other words the opinion that they have of teaching practices, particularly affect their motivation, while the effect on ways of studying is nonexistent all things being equal. In comparison to other variables, such as those related to educational background of the individual, they have in addition a relatively moderate impact on the average score of the exam first and second semester and the likelihood of passing the year. However, the motivation appears to be a mediator of the effect of "declared" on study practices and success. In addition, we look at the effect of "observed" practices, ie effectively implemented by teachers on student studies. These play a significant direct role in explaining study practices and student success, but they have no effect on motivation.

Notre recherche étudie le rapport des enseignants de l’école primaire française à l’orthographe appréhendée comme une norme sociale à travers leurs propos déclaratifs et à travers leurs pratiques enseignantes. En France, l’orthographe revêt des enjeux sociaux d’importance. Si l’orthographe est un ensemble de règles provenant du système linguistique, elle est aussi une pratique sociale qui s’impose à tous les utilisateurs. Elle appartient dès lors aux normes culturelles d’une société donnée. C’est pourquoi, nous avons cherché à apprécier l’adhésion des maitres à cette norme et à savoir s’il existait, entre eux, une certaine variabilité dans cette adhésion. Pour ce faire, nous avons opérationnalisé le concept de norme sociale. Nous avons mené 30 entretiens semi-directifs auprès d’enseignants de CM1 et CM2. Leurs réponses ont été analysées grâce à une analyse de contenu thématique et à une analyse statistique. Cela a permis de dégager cinq profils ortho-normatifs qui témoignent d’une variabilité du rapport des maitres à cette norme sociale orthographique et d’établir une typologie. Puis, nous avons cherché à percevoir ces rapports ortho-normatifs lorsqu’ils enseignent en classe auprès de leurs élèves pour éprouver les propos de Jaurès « on n’enseigne pas ce que l’on sait ou ce que l’on croit savoir : on enseigne et on ne peut enseigner que ce que l’on est » et apprécier la présence de leurs logiques d’arrière-fond (Bucheton, 2011). Chaque enseignant montre sa façon singulière d’incarner son profil ortho-normatif et de rendre présente cette norme sociale lors d’une séance d’enseignement d’un point particulier du système linguistique. Ce faisant, il construit le curriculum caché des élèves. / Our research studies how French primary school teachers deal with spelling considered as a social norm through their declarative words as well as their teaching practices. In France, with spelling, important social issues are at stake. If spelling is a set of rules linked to the linguistic system, it is also a social practice which is imposed on all users. As such it belongs to the cultural norms of a given society. That’s why we tried to estimate teachers ’adhesion to this norm and see if there was a certain variability to it among them.In order to achieve this, we operationalized the concept of social norm. We led 30 semi-directive interviews with 4th and 5th year primary school teachers. Their answers were analyzed thanks to both a thematic content analysis and a statistical one. The result highlighted the existence of five “ortho-normative profiles” which shows a variability in the relationship teachers have to this social spelling norm and enabling us to establish a typology.Then, we tried to grasp these “ortho-normative relationships” when they teach in class to test Jaurès ‘s words : “we don’t teach what we know or what we think we know, we teach and can only teach what we are” and thus estimated their background logics (Bucheton, 2011). Each teacher showed his personal way to embody his own “ortho-normative profile” and made this social norm present during a teaching session of a particular point of the linguistic system. In doing so, he builds the pupils’hidden curriculum.

Le premier objectif de ce travail a été de décrire les pratiques d’enseignement de la lecture-Écriture au cours préparatoire et de faire une comparaison entre les résultats obtenus au Portugal et ceux obtenus en France par Fijalkow (2003). 883 enseignants ont rempli un questionnaire. Les résultats montrent que les deux pays ont des résultats proches en ce qui concerne les aspects méthodologiques de l’enseignement de la lecture et l’évaluation des compétences de lecture et d’écriture des élèves. Cependant, les enseignants Portugais ont déclaré qu'ils utilisent plus fréquemment des activités développées à partir de livres de jeunesse, d'autres matériaux que les manuels, et différentes activités d’écriture. Une analyse hiérarchique de clusters a fait apparaître trois groupes d’enseignants: un groupe qui considère la maitrise du code comme le moyen privilégié d’accès à la langue écrite (unités courtes); un autre qui considère que la recherche du sens est essentielle pour l’appropriation de la langue écrite (unités longues); et un groupe intermédiaire (toutes unités). L’observation directe de 42 enseignants a montré l’existence d’un accord entre le questionnaire et les pratiques observés dans 55% des cas. Les élèves des enseignants dont l’observation directe a validé les réponses au questionnaire ont été évalués avec trois épreuves: lecture de mots, décision lexicale et compréhension. Une MANCOVA indiquent que les élèves du groupe toutes unités obtiennent de meilleurs résultats dans les trois épreuves que les élèves des autres groupes. En plus, 'il n'y a pas de différences de performances entre les élèves du groupe unités courtes et les élèves du groupe unités longues. / This study aimed to characterize the teaching practices of written language and understand its impact on reading acquisition by the end of 1st grade. The first step of this study was a descriptive and comparative study to the one conducted by Fijalkow (2003). Based on questionnaire answers of 883 teachers, we found that teachers from both countries have similar approaches regarding methodological aspects of teaching of reading and students’ assessment of reading and writing abilities. However, Portuguese teachers stated that they use more frequently activities from children's literature, other materials besides the manual and different writing proposals than French teachers. A hierarchical cluster analysis revealed three groups of teachers: a) a group of teachers who focus its practices in teaching the code of written language (short units), b) a group that emphasizes the construction of meaning based on texts (long units), c) and a group of teachers who gathered in their practices characteristics of both groups mentioned above (diversified units). Classroom observations of 42 teachers allowed to confirm questionnaire answers for 55% of the participants.Teachers whose observations were coincident with the questionnaire answers were selected and their students were evaluated using three reading tests: single words reading, lexical decision task and comprehension task. A MANCOVA revealed that students in the diversified unit group obtain better results in all reading tests than students from the other groups. It was also possible to confirm that there were no differences in performance between students of the short units group and students of the long units group. / O primeiro objetivo deste trabalho foi o de descrever as práticas de ensino da leitura e da escrita no 1º ano de escolaridade e de fazer uma comparação com os resultados obtidos entre Portugal e França (Fijalkow, 2003). 883 professores responderam a um questionário. Os resultados indicam que os dois países apresentam resultados semelhantes relativamente aos aspetos metodológicos do ensino da leitura e dos aspetos de avaliação das competências de leitura e escrita dos alunos. Contudo, os professores portugueses declararam realizar com maior frequência atividades a partir de livros infantis, outros materiais para além do manual e diferentes atividades de escrita. Uma análise hierárquica de clusters revelou três grupos de professores: um grupo que considera o domínio do código como o meio privilegiado de acesso à linguagem escrita (unidades curtas); outro que considera que a procurar de significado é essencial para a apropriação da linguagem escrita (unidades longas); e um grupo intermédio (unidades diversificadas). A observação direta de 42 professores mostrou a existência de acordo entre as práticas relatadas e as práticas observadas em 55% dos casos. Os alunos dos professores cuja observação direta validou a resposta ao questionário foram avaliados com três provas de leitura: leitura de palavras, decisão lexical e compreensão. Uma MANCOVA mostrou que os alunos do grupo unidades diversificadas obtêm melhores resultados em todas as provas do que os alunos dos outros grupos. Mostraram ainda que não existem diferenças de desempenho entre os alunos do grupo unidades curtas e os alunos do grupo unidades longas.

Cette thèse vise à éclairer les fonctionnements disciplinaires de l’évaluation formelle à l’école primaire. J’ai approché ces fonctionnements en observant les pratiques enseignantes, en analysant les documents qui servent de supports à l’évaluation et en interrogeant le vécu des élèves. J’ai ainsi élaboré une modélisation pour éclairer les composantes de l’évaluation et envisager les variations possibles des pratiques. J’ai aussi mis au jour la manière spécifique dont les disciplines sont construites au travers de l’évaluation, les caractéristiques disciplinaires des dispositifs mis en œuvre et enfin la manière dont les élèves vivent ces évaluations. L’approche de didactique comparée, au sein de laquelle je me situe, éclaire les variations selon les disciplines, voire les contenus évalués. Elle permet de préciser les images des disciplines construites par les pratiques évaluatives. / This thesis aims to explain how formal evaluation work depending on the school subject taught in primary school. For my study, I observed several teachers’ practices, analyzed the evaluation material, and interviewed the pupils about their evaluation experiences. Then, I developed a model which highlights the different steps of an evaluation and allows an analysis of all possible variations in practices. I also presented the specific structure of each school subject, still from the evaluation angle, the specific evaluation methods used according to the subject, and the pupils’ perception of these evaluation. The comparative didactics approach I adopted allowed me to point out variations in the different school subjects, or even in the evaluated content. In the end, with this approach I was able to gather a global picture of each school subject based on the evaluation practices.

The present study focuses on how the European Language Portfolio (ELP) can be used in a Swedish school. More particularly it aims at exploring how a group of teachers have adapted the use of the material to their particular pedagogical situation. It also aims at finding out what the same group of teachers identifies as the ELP’s strengths and possible weaknesses.For this purpose, a case study was carried out in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with four language teachers at an upper secondary school in the south of Sweden. Although the teachers started out using the official ELP 16+, only the language passport has been kept. The teachers have adapted the rest of the material to their own situation. Three different adaptations were identified and presented. Moreover, the teachers identified a number of areas that they saw as the ELP’s strengths. Among these areas were the material’s compatibility with the Swedish steering documents and the language biography (in adapted versions). When asked about the possible weaknesses, the teachers’ main concerns were the standard checklists and the fact that working with the ELP is time-consuming in different ways.

This study examined teacher characteristics and practices identified as effective through current research for teaching students with complex communication needs. For this population, communication issues are more complex than those typically encountered in other settings. Specifically, the researcher asked: what are the desired characteristics and practices for this population, and are the desired characteristics and practices present in current settings? Working with six teachers in a large urban school district, this study utilized a multiple case study design. Criteria for participation included the teacher as the primary reading/language arts instructor for a student who used an augmentative and alternative communication system (AAC). This study builds on prior research and fills a gap in current research through a focus on the teacher. This study was conducted through three phases: a survey of teacher characteristics, observations of teacher practices, and a semi-structured interview. Four instruments were utilized to ensure validity. Results suggest that teachers for this population require knowledge on language and literacy specific to the non-verbal child. AAC training is critical in regard to programming and navigation. The use of other technology supports which offer auditory, visual, and access options are essential. Strong collaborative teams (school and district) are also important. However, one of the most significant findings documents that success may lie with the teacher's 'choice' to embrace challenges with this population. This issue of 'choice' questions the teacher's willingness (personally or professionally) to accept this commitment. This finding also questions the degree to which teachers are willing to pursue opportunities. Recommendations include the need for: training (teachers and paraprofessionals), pursuit of opportunities for supports, addressing parent issues, a district-based liaison between home and school, and to examine issues which prevent the recommended instructional time (90 minutes of reading instruction plus 45 minutes of supplemental instruction). Conclusions indicated that participants ranged from effective to ineffective. The identification of 'highly qualified' teachers through level of education and amount of experience did not correlate with participants' level of effectiveness. Given the limited research available, this study addresses a need in the field and lays the foundation for future research with this population.

Gifted students are not easily identified. They often mask their cognitive skills, use poor writing or might not write at all in class, even though gifted students often know how to write especially enriched and well. Previous studies show that 92% of the examined gifted students in the community Mensa suffered from being bored and not perceiving enough challenges in elementary school. As a consequence of not being able to learn at the fast pace the gifted students' intelligent brain needs, bored gifted students often become homebound. The purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge of how to support gifted students in their writing development. Based on previous research and our studies on gifted students writing development our main questions are as following; What reasoning do teachers use to promote the writing development of the especially gifted students? Which teaching practices do teachers experience as promoting or limiting in gifted students' writing development? Using qualitative interviews and surveys to collect data, our study indicates that gifted students need to experience meaningfulness in the assignment and fully understand the purpose of which, to gain access to their individual development. Principals were shown to have a key role in supporting teachers, enabling gifted students the right to accelerate in the subject and develop teachers' knowledge in gifted students.

In Senegal, in recent years the rural sector has undergone major reforms which are partly due to macroeconomic policy reforms adopted by the Senegalese government. Therefore, all the actors of economic and social development have a common concern and share in promoting rural agriculture (Bernard et al., 2008). Changes observed in the agricultural and rural sector reflect the will of the actors to have a productive, competitive, and sustainable agriculture system in order to ensure food security (International Monetary Fund, 2011). The purpose of the study is to develop a set of recommendations to improve the educational program planning and teaching skills of educators in the extension system by focusing on extension educators' approaches to teaching farmers and cart owners animal welfare practices for proper care of working animals. The extension agents and teachers involved in the animal husbandry and animal extension system in Thies and Bambey served as participants in this study. This descriptive qualitative study connected qualitative data derived from participant interviews, qualitative document analysis, observations of an educational program planning professional development program for state agents and university faculty members in Diourbel and Thies regions, as well as a final focus group to allow participants clarification of preliminary themes found in the data. The findings revealed 11 themes: characteristics of the participants, job expectation and responsibilities, institutional and organizational factors, capacity building and professional development plans, diagnostics of the extension system, regulations and legislations, limited sources of information, limited knowledge and skills technologies, recommendations for utilizing student-centered teaching practices, standard welfare for animal husbandry, recommendation for acceptance and improvement standard animal welfare related to the four research questions which addressed the topics of challenging current teaching methods used in the extension system for other owners of animal species in the animal extension programs, the use of student-centered teaching practices in extension education and university instruction, and the level assistance given to farmers in order to ensure accepted standards of animal welfare working animal and other animal species in the animal husbandry system. / Master of Science in Life Sciences / In Senegal, in recent years the rural sector has undergone major reforms which are partly due to macroeconomic policy reforms adopted by the Senegalese government. Therefore, all the actors of economic and social development have a common concern and share in promoting rural agriculture (Bernard et al., 2008). Changes observed in the agricultural and rural sector reflect the will of the actors to have a productive, competitive, and sustainable agriculture system in order to ensure food security (International Monetary Fund, 2011). The purpose of the study is to develop a set of recommendations to improve the educational program planning and teaching skills of educators in the extension system by focusing on extension educators' approaches to teaching farmers and cart owners animal welfare practices for proper care of working animals. The extension agents and teachers involved in the animal husbandry and animal extension system in Thies and Bambey served as participants in this study. The methodology used for this descriptive qualitative study were interviews, qualitative document analysis, observations of an educational and professional development program planning for state agents and university faculty members in Diourbel and Thies regions, as well as a final focus group to allow participants clarification of preliminary themes found in the data. The data collected from participants were connected to the different used qualitative methods to gather data. The 11 themes found in this study were the characteristics of the participants, job expectation and responsibilities, institutional and organizational factors, capacity building and professional development plans, diagnostics of the extension system, regulations and legislations, limited sources of information, limited knowledge and skills technologies, recommendations for utilizing student-centered teaching practices, standard welfare for animal husbandry, recommendation for acceptance and improvement standard animal welfare related to the four research questions which addressed the topics of challenging current teaching methods used in the extension system for other owners of animal species in the animal extension programs, the use of student-centered teaching practices in extension education and university instruction, and the level assistance given to farmers in order to ensure accepted standards of animal welfare working animal and other animal species in the animal husbandry system.