*** Bonjour,

  At the risk of looking a bit gross here, I would 
say that the most utilized term for focus group 
in french in quebec is ... focus group. As usual, 
there is the difference between the general term 
and the technical term. Generally speaking, focus 
group is utilized as almost any kind of little 
group meeting working systematically on a 
specific issue. More technically, focus groups 
have come out of the small group social 
psychological tradition, larged reutilized in 
commercial marketing strategies to hash out 
specific characteristic of target groups or 
products. The nominal group is one of many 
specific ways to manage one of these groups, and 
the nominal group technique (groupe nominal in 
french) is one that goes through many rouds of 
confidentila voting to prioritize in trying to 
neutralize the big voices after a period of 
exchange; nominal groups are often conducted in a 
non face-to-face seting, which is not the case 
for focus groups. So depending on what type of 
meeting or technique the original asker is 
talking about, in a specialized or general 
context, the translation could vary. It would 
usually not be groupe nominal for reasons 
mentioned above, and groupe de discussion ou 
entretien semi-dirigé de groupe, as mentioned by 
two of the previous contributors would probably 
be the most generally usable terms.

M. O. ***


At 16:36 -0800 08/11/05, catalin nache wrote:
>Je suis d'accord! Mais "techniquement" parlant 
>ça se rapproche de ce que nos amis québecois ont 
>défini dans divers livres de méthodologie comme 
>étant cette technique du groupe nominal... En 
>gros, en France, l'expression "groupe de 
>discussion" est beaucoup plus générale que 
>"focus group" et n'indique pas la manière dont 
>on va s'y prendre!
>
>"Courtemanche, Jocelyne" 
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>the term I am most familiar with: groupe de 
>discussion.
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>Hi Diane,
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>http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/gdt.html - 
>"Le grand dictionnaire terminologique" (and a 
>very useful resource) says "groupe de 
>discussion" (n. m.) in most contexts listed.
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>>  Does anyone have a good way of expressing the term "focus group" in
>>  French?
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>>  Thanks,
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>>  Diane Buhler
>>  Parent Action on Drugs
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