Analysis of a Creativity Activity in French Teaching as a Foreign Language by the Theory of the Instrumental Genesis

In french teaching as a foreign language for children, educational objectives should be linked to the pleasure of learning. thus, the playful dimension of the activities, their ability to seek and develop the creativity of learners should allow implementing innovative teaching situations, motivating and generating new knowledge as in cultural and linguistic domains. in this context, our research is based on an activity during which the turkish learners realize a cartoon using the software toontastic animating some famous turkish tales on tablet computers. from a didactical point of view, the process, in which the software passes from the status of artifact to the status of instrument of instrumental genesis, will be highlighted. this framework is particularly suitable to analyze teaching situations using ict. we will analyze how this process of instrumentalization may develop the communicative and intercultural skills.