Le français au lycée en Algérie : des « types » de textes aux « genres » de discours

Through the analysis of twelve French textbooks in high school, we will try to highlight in this article the transformations of the teaching of French in the last three decades. We will focus in particular on the place of the teaching/learning by the speech genres, highly recommended by educationists from the 90’s. On the other hand, through the analysis of questionnaires désigned for secondary school teachers, we will try to discuss teachers attitudes towards this shift in teaching, that is from teaching language typology to teaching of discourse genres