The oral: a complex object in the field multilingual

Abstract

In this introductory text, the authors try to show how oral practices and multilingualism can be reconciled,
in the Algerian context and even beyond, for the greatest benefit students, their learning and their development
personal. They start from ordinary social practices to to draw from "already there" skills to build on, in order to go
towards consciously plurilingual skills for a future tolerant and pacified. In doing so, they rely on data oral of daily life.