Apprendre le français avant l'anglais au Liban, un ordre en questions

Abstract

This article questions a postulation about language teaching in Lebanon that consists in conceiving a sequence in language teaching/learning process: French should be taught before English because French language is considered hard to learn while English language is easy. This major representation of languages and their teaching is widely spread between teachers and language specialists and therefore limits university students academic choices, since very few of Anglophone students dare to enroll a department where French is required. Two interviews done with students who learned French language after English are developed in this paper in order to illustrate that this learning sequence is always possible.