Neurosciences, médiation musicale et abstraction phonologique de l'anglais au primaire

Michel Freiss (1)

1 CeReS - Centre de Recherches Sémiotiques

This action research aims to analyze the relation between musical teaching/learning and phonological accommodation (Piaget) in English L2 at primary school in the light of the latest findings in cognitive neurosciences. Starting from the succeeding curricula set up to promote the learning of oral/aural English, we shed a new light on the now obvious links between perception/comprehension and Wernicke's area, oral production and lip reading thanks to mirror neurones connected to Broca's area or still, cerebral plasticity obtained through the richness of signals and the transversal dimension of learnings. In so doing, we come up with a sample of teaching schemes, namely, concrete musical and phonological activities enabling the activation and mapping of the abstract dimensions of language in a holistic proceeding taking the whole of the learning subject into account.

Mots clés: école primaire; dualisme abstrait; concret; Théories phonologiques; neurosciences; cognition; phonétique; holisme; école primaire.

Domaines: Linguistique; Neurosciences

Michel Freiss. Neurosciences, médiation musicale et abstraction phonologique de l'anglais au primaire. 2012. ⟨hal-00952955⟩