The 2024 APLV study day aims to contribute to reflection on the teaching and learning of languages in professional training courses in secondary and higher education and research establishments.

Indeed, in the professional context, discourse and competence are intrinsically mixed: professional discourse appears as a variation of professional competence. This is the “discursive component of professional expertise”. The analysis of the discursive component of professional expertise that we will carry out during this day is based on the study of professional activities and discourses in context, and more particularly on the forms of interaction and discussion in relation to the 'activity. The objective of the day is to reflect both the state of language classroom practices and research in the field of professional specialized languages, in secondary education (vocational high schools, technological series) or in the higher education (universities, IUTs, engineering schools, etc.).

The day will take the form of two plenary interventions by teacher-researchers, focusing on the specific nature of language teaching with professionalizing objectives (Séverine Wozniak, University Lyon 2) and on lifelong learning. (Christine Evain, Rennes 2 University) and two round tables during which various professionalizing practices will be presented and analyzed in vocational high schools and in technological series on the one hand, in higher education (BTS, LEA, international student mobility) on the one hand, somewhere else. The work of the study day will last from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Registration is free but required.