Figures of the Relation with the Learner, Elements of a Description of the Language Market

It is noted that the learning of foreign languages & cultures, long an object of scholarly study, has become a social phenomenon in today's Europe. Specifically, changes in the relationship between teacher & learner that have occurred as a result of this change in perspective are examined. The emergence of the learner as an actor in all phases & dimensions of the learning/training process is seen to modify the educational relationship between student & teacher & to transform the identities of the participants. B. Annesser Murray