The present study pertains to studies in research on language didactics. Its main objective was to make pedagogical proposals for the teaching of French as a foreign language as part of training for tourist guides apprentices in Venezuela.In order to do this, we recorded the field work of four professional guides (two French and two Venezuelans). The text corpus was transcribed using the ICOR standards (ICAR Laboratory, Lyon 2). In order to conduct a comparative analysis we employed tools such as: the use of conversational analysis, linguistic enunciation analysis and textual linguistic analyses. Such tools allowed us to determine discursive similarities and differences in the tour guides at the pragmatic, enunciative, syntactic and semantic levels.Analyses showed that the guides from the two cultural groups use the same speech acts in guided tours and use the same linguistic processes specific to oral discourse (even if written language traces are present). However, the guides use different deictics as cultural and enunciative marks. With these observations, we present models of pedagogical activities targeting the mastery of linguistic knowledge, the development of communicative skills and knowledge necessary to the tourist guide profession. These training activities include intercultural dimensions which have emerged from our analysis of interactions.
