Teaching French as a foreign language through the interdisciplinary method: teaching through science

This article highlights a new approach to teaching French to students in scientific and technical sections in the second qualifying cycle where literary works reign as an ex-clusive support for teaching French, the first foreign language in Morocco. What we have developed in this paper is an interdisciplinary method that draws on other disci-plines and thanks to which it will be easy for French teachers to reconcile the literary and aesthetic substance conveyed by the integral literary works with the rational tendencies and the scientific representations of the students of the scientific and tech-nical sections. The approach discussed in this article aims to create interdisciplinary complementarity to establish a continuum of acquired knowledge by analyzing some prototypical statements extracted from the works programmed at the second qualifying cycle of the school system. The method of analysis is based on the scientific content studied in the following disciplines: mathematical logic, the method of reasoning of which makes it possible to ensure whether the entities expressed in the literary texts have the truth and the just coherence or not. Secondly, Isaac Newton’s universal gravi-tation (fundamental mechanics) whose three famous laws make it possible to under-stand the principles that generate the relationships between a solid body in a position exposed to the impact of other forces. Thirdly, the natural sciences, whose Darwin’s theory allows comparison between the semantemes that give rise to the constituents of statements that fall under the wonderful register and the semantemes that characterize the categories of species in nature.