Teaching spoken French in FFL (French as a foreign language)

The dispute has never stopped surrounding the use of familiar language in the French teaching. Lots of people consider that the familiar language is really vulgar which is not an appropriate type of language for the elegant scenarios, and the same people insist that this kind of language should be locked out of the classroom in order to ensure the correct and authentic usage of French. As a matter of fact, every type of language will never be isolated from the final practical use. The familiar language has the most intimacy with the daily life of the French people and it’s the language that they are using every single day. Compared with the standard French, the familiar language might be even more important in terms of communication and pragmatics. Most French speakers use colloquial French, especially in informal spaces.We can see that colloquial language is greatly underestimated in learning, specifically in learning French as a foreign language. How to define the meaning of familiar language? What is its role in the teaching and study process of French? How to properly clarify the relationship between standard French and familiar language to further improve students’ listening and speaking ability in communication? These are the questions to be discussed in this article.