Annexe3. Observation participante
OBSERVATION EN COURS DE LANGUE
Observation du discours des apprenants. Mené le 03/12/2015
cours d'anglais en classe de seconde A4 Allemand.
En seconde, la version anglaise d'un extrait du poème
d'Homère « The Odyssey » (traduit en prose) avait
été lue en classe quelques jours auparavant. Dans cet extrait
Odysseus un chef grec et ses hommes sont emprisonnés par un monstre
à oeil unique dénommé le Cyclops. Convaincu que ce monstre
mangeur d'hommes finira par les manger tous, Odysseus va imaginer un
stratagème pour échapper au monstre lui et ses hommes. A la fin
de cette leçon de Reading-Comprehension, Il a été
demandé aux élèves de préparer pour la prochaine
leçon une histoire de monstre populaire dans leur culture et de la
raconter en classe. La consigne : ` Tell about a monster in your
culture or traditions'. Les histoires de monstres produites par
quelques élèves ont été enregistrées en
voici la retranscription.
ELEVE 1
32. Teacher : The name is...
33. Student1 : My name is Student1. The Monster in my
village is AKPARA/àkpàrá /
34. Teacher: Where is your village located?
35. Student1 : in départment de la Menoua.
1. Teacher : In Menoua division. That's what we say in
English. So the monster in your village is Akpara is
that?
36. Student1 : Yes sir.
37. Teacher : How is Akpara ?
38. Student1 : He bok a mask.
39. Teacher : He bok ? What is bok?
40. Class: [rire des élèves...quelques-uns
chuchotent «francamglais»]
41. Student1 : [fait un signe de la main sur la
figure]
42. Teacher : Not bok, wears. He wears a mask.
43. Student1 : He wears a mask. In the mask he has three
oeil.
44. Teacher : three what?
45. Class: [ les élèves répètent
partagés entre `oeil', et `I']
46. Teacher : he has three eyes.
47. Student1 : he bok big clothes.
48. Teacher: he wears not he bok
49. Student1: He wears clothes. He has a long
fingers.
50. Teacher: He has long fingers. When you say «a»
the word is singular so, he has long fingers.
51. Student1: He has long fingers. He shake very
good.
52. Teacher: what is « shake »?
53. Class: [rire des élèves] dance...
54. Teacher: He dances very well. Is that all?
55. Student1 : No. Euh...He is very watt.
56. Teacher : He is very....
57. Student1 : Watt...blanc
58. Teacher : He is light-skinned. We say he is
light-skinned.
59. Student1 : When people dance he sow a banana. Banana
pousse now now.
60. Class: [rires dans la classe... Certains
élève répète `pousse now now now' en
riant.]
61. Teacher : He plants a banana tree and the banana tree
grows right at the moment.
62. Student1 : yes, sir.
63. Teacher : and people eat bananas.
64. Student1 : yes, sir.
65. Teacher : Ok. And what does he do to people?
66. Student1 : He protect the village.
67. Teacher : so akpara is a good monster. He is not
wicked.
68. Student1 : yes, sir.
ELEVE2
69. Student2 : The monster of my village is Flapajou.
Flapajou is a big monster. He has euh...red les cheveux.
70. Class: [rire dans la classe...]
71. Teacher : red les cheveux hein ? ... He has red hair.
Yes.
72. Student2 : This monster detest children. He has a long
finger. He has a black body.
73.
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Teacher : He has a black skin, he is dark-skinned.
74. Student2 : This monster habité in the
forest.
75. Class: [un élève souffle... « lives
»]
76. Student2 : This monster lives in the forest. The people
abandonné the forest.
77. Class:[rires...]
78. Teacher : people abandoned the forest. Why?
79. Student2 : Because the monster will eat the children to
kill the children.
80. Teacher : You said Flapajou is a big monster with red
hair. What about his face. How does it look like?
81. Student2 : He has a mask with the pic...the
corne.
82. Teacher : horns...right ? You said the monster detest
children. He can eat children. What else does he do?
83. Student2 : he detest people and animals.
84. Teacher : what does he do to people and animals ? To
detest is a feeling. How does Flapajou manifest that feeling? How do you know
that he detests people?
85. Student2 : [Pas de réponse]
86. Teacher : Ok ...another monster...
ELEVE 3
87. Student3 : Kokolo and Menguilingui
88. Teacher : In which village?
89. Student3 : Menyina Zoetele in the South. They are
horrible big fishers beside river... And they are terrorism children.
90. Teacher : They are terrorising children.
91. Student3 : They have hair and long and big
teeth.
92. Teacher : They have long hair and big teeth. What about
the body?
93. Student3 : Monsieur il est comme le poisson.
94. Teacher : They look like fish...ok?
95. Student3 : yes, yes.
96. Teacher : How do they terrorise children? What do they
do?
97. Student3 : Monsieur c'est parce qu'il est laid qu'il
terrorise les enfants.
98. Teacher : Can't you say it in English ?
99. Student3 : [silence]
100. Teacher : Ok... another one...
ELEVE 4
101. Student4 : The monster of my village is Nkuissier. She
is big.
102. Teacher : Is it a female monster?
103. Student4 : He is big, black, his hair... he are a
rasta. He are hungry.
104. Teacher : He... He....
105. Student4 : He is hungry...ugly.
106. Teacher : Hungry or ugly?
107. Student4 : Ugly...laid. His clothes are white. He
effraying the people in the bosquet.
108. Teacher : He frightens people in groves. Yes...so,
that's all? So, the name of the village is...
109. Student4 : Mbankuop in Foumbot.
110. Teacher : Good...[un élève lève le
doigt.] Yes, Student5. Now we are listening to student 5. ELEVE 5
111. Student5 : My monster is Kèmbê.
112. Teacher : Your monster?
113. Class: [rires...]
114. Student5 : The monster in my village is
Kèmbê.
115. Teacher : So, How is Kèmbê?
116. Student5 : Kembê is a snake the head is cot
/c?t/... [rires dans la classe]...cock... la chèvre. [ les
élèves rient de plus en plus]
117. Teacher : The head is...
118. Student5 : cot and snake...cot cot la
chèvre.
119. Teacher : it is goat... goat. The head is goat and the
body is snake. Ok.
120. Student5 : He lives das forest.
121.
142
Class: [rires...quelques élèves
murmurent]...das c'est déjà l'allemand.
122. Teacher : He lives in the forest.
123. Student5 : He kill the woman when the woman go to find
the firewood.
124. Teacher : So the only characteristic of
kèmbê is that one part is snake and another is goat.
125. Student5 : Yes, yes, das this. He has four eyes. Four
big eyes.
126. Teacher : You say he kills women when they go to find
for firewood that's all. The village is...
127. Student5 : Makak.
128. Teacher : Makak is in the centre...More stories about
monsters?
ELEVE 6
129. Student6 : I don't have a monster.
130. Teacher : So, what do you have?
131. Student6 : I have Jean Bivesseu
132. Teacher : What?
133. Class:[un élève s'exclame à basse
voix] eeeeeeh... Jean les os.
134. Student6 : Jean Bivesseu. It is a human. He kills
people and takes their bones and sell in the market.
135. Teacher : So you don't have a monster but you describe
what?
136. Student6 : Jean Bivesseu. He kills people and takes
their bones and sell in the market. He is very
beautiful.
137. Teacher : You say he is very beautiful. Do we say that
a man is beautiful?
138. Class: No....
139. Teacher : So how is the man?
140. Student6 : good-looking.
141. Teacher : good-looking or handsome.
142. Student6 : He lives in cocoa fields. He always has a
machete. Jean Bivesseu has one foot.
143. Teacher : He is cripple
144. Student6 : Il a un pied et demi.
145. Teacher : Yes, we say he is crippled. So, Jean Bivesseu
is a real person.
146. Student6 : he has died now.
147. Teacher : the story is now a legend.
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