The basis of a learning modeling grammar, the dual system of E.T. Hall

Alain JAILLET, Professor, CY Cergy Paris Université, BONHEURS Laboratory, France

The automation of the relationship between an individual and the learning situation is a problem that has been worked on for a very long time, both from the point of view of learning and teaching. The models constructed have been based on a reference model, a result to be achieved, an expected result. This perspective freezes the structure of the automation devices developed from didactic objectives of transfer and consideration of weak cognitive situations. In the 1950s, within the American "new communication" movement, E.T. Hall, a communication anthropologist, developed a new approach to communication. Hall, a communication anthropologist, as he defined himself, articulated two models in order to understand how individuals structure their relationship with their environment within the societies in which they participate. These two models can constitute an outline of systems for learning the characteristics of a subject in an interaction situation with an automated teaching/learning device. The challenge of these devices is to no longer program themselves in a normative way only with regard to an expected result, but to have access to the understanding of the behaviour of the individual in his learning process.