Our research concerns the education / learning of the culture in the teaching of the French language and that of the intercultural competence in the departments of French of the Chinese universities. Incomprehensions and misunderstandings appear in the communication between the Chinese and the French people. The Chinese students show in this context of education different kinds of difficulties, so much of cultural order as of linguistics. At the end of the surveys realized before in China and in France, we were interested in the cultural differences and in the dysfunctions found by the students as well as in their attitudes and the strategies towards these cultural differences.We then led an investigation with the teaching staff in China and an analysis of the manual worker used to explain the importance of the differences noticed in the method and the steps of teaching. Our two hypotheses were so able to be validated: the representations of the differences and the dysfunctions between the Chinese students who have only a school real-life experience of French (in China) and those who lived in France are very different; the importance of these differences and the intensity of this gap can be understandable by the contents and the methods of teaching French as speciality in chinese universities which prepare hardly for the meeting of the real environment. We finally proposed educational tracks to develop this consciousness.
For an intercultural approach of the teaching of French as the speciality in Chinese universities