Langages - Année 1999 - Volume 33 - Numéro 134 - Pages 85-100This case study focuses on one particular learner's particular practice of « technical reiteration » in soliloquies, besides other intercultural communicative tasks. The interest of such a case is that it emphasizes the fact that the learner may, in some situations, conceive and organise her « second language training » as based on the whole activity of task achievement. The analysis shows that the learner may focalise and organise her reflexive activities on the interactional event as a whole. This does not mean that she is not interested in linguistic forms but it highlights the fact that she also gives importance to other aspects and levels which constitute interactions. This case and similar ones tend to indicate that focalising on and negociating linguistic forms is not the only way of conceiving L2 learning and acquisition (or of studying it) . 16 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.