Abstract EN:

This research, in a comparative study between both Great-Britain and France, looks at the way educational television deals with the teaching of French in the united kingdom and the teaching of English in France, especially at secondary level. Its aims is to understand how schools language broadcasts can influence foreign language learning, with the help of both linguistic theories and comparative studies in education, as well as the study of the power of television and the importance of the image in a learning process. In the first half of the study, the theoretical background to the educational potential of both British and French terrestrial television channels in the 90s is established to then look at their influence as regards modem foreign languages. Having described that, the history of linguistic theories can be described until the current communicative approach which integrates television as a learning tool. In the second half of the study, language broadcasts are analyzed according to their movements of thought, with three programs studied in particular in both countries. The legal side is then dealt with to understand the problems of the use of television broadcasting in the classrooms. The question of a possible methodology in the modern foreign language classroom is then raised to open the discussion on the new deal of the twenty first century and on the future of language broadcasts in this new context.