Abstract
"Interaction in French as a Foreign Language: From the Concept Itself to Methodological Challenges. This paper proposes a theorisation of interaction anchored in the framework of sociodidactics, as a ‘linking concept’, and the different issues that arise from this position. This epistemological reflection focuses on interaction as a concept that allows to bring together several aspects of research. Thus, interaction as a concept allows us to weave links between different disciplinary traditions, between different theories and ways of analysing human interactions. As an object and a tool, it makes it possible to link and considers the different participants in the research, their points of view, their imaginaries. This brings many challenges (relational, interpretive among others) to be met. Keywords: interaction, epistemological reflection, imaginary, ethos, proximity. "