L'activite de prise de notes en situation de cours comparaison des pratiques d'etudiants de Francais langue maternelle et de Francais langue etrangere
Considering notes taken while attending a course as a writing genre anchored in a specific discursive background, the parameters of which are to be taken into account, this thesis confronts the oral discourse of a young teacher (delivered in French) with the notes taken by French and Dutch students. In an often interdisciplinary approach, note taking has been examined in cognitive psychology, linguistics and didactics. The first part of the thesis consists in an assessment of these studies. Contrary to most of these works that rest on the practices of note takers, one of our objectives is to analyze the interrelation between teacher's discourse which, through more or less explicit hints, constantly guides the note takers and note taking. To make this oral discourse and these notes interrelate, several levels of analysis have been considered in the second part: that of the lexical units, of the clause, of the discourse. However, to assess the activity of note taking itself, intermediate stages have been defined according to their pragmatic role. The last part deals with the results that can be drawn from our studies. The reduction processed by note takers has thus been assessed and qualified. The reaction to the hints given by the teacher and entailing note taking has also been measured. These analyses made it possible to distinguish between different note taking modes. If Dutch and French students differ in their practices on a few points, it appears that the main differences lie in an individual practice of note taking. Some suggestions intending at providing some help to students have been sketched out according to the difficulties met with by note takers.