Teaching and learning spoken language in the age of artificial intelligence: An analysis of professional practices

Abstract

This study highlights the difficulties Congolese learners face with oral communication as they enter secondary education. It examines classroom practices and teachers’ professional practices when teaching this skill, as well as the content of oral production at secondary level. Drawing on didactic transposition as a theoretical approach – that is, the process of transforming scholarly knowledge into teachable knowledge, as conceived by Yves Chevallard, and the construction of objects of knowledge into objects of instruction. In short, the aim is to analyse how French teachers approach the teaching of oral production in French as a second language at school level in the age of artificial intelligence.

The data collected from a number of teachers interviewed about their classroom practices reveals that oral skills, as an object of learning, are not taught in most of our schools.

Keywords: oral skills – communication skills – didactic transposition – artificial intelligence.

Received Date: June 19, 2026

Accepted Date: July 10, 2026

Published Date: August 01, 2026

Available Online at: https://www.ijsrisjournal.com/index.php/ojsfiles/article/view/920