The Acquisition Of French As A Second Language

Author : Christina Lindqvist,Camilla Bardel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270078

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The Acquisition of French as a Second Language by Christina Lindqvist,Camilla Bardel Pdf

Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different researchers in the field, including studies on the acquisition of grammar, formulaic language, lexis and pragmatic devices, and covering interlanguage development from beginner level up to very advanced, presumably near-native levels of proficiency. The learners in the studies reported in the volume represent different L1 backgrounds and age groups. The chapters shed light on current issues in research on second language acquisition from different theoretical perspectives, and contribute to a better understanding of L2 French and SLA in general. The volume should be of interest for students, teachers and researchers of L2 French and SLA. Originally published in Language, Interaction and Acquisition 3:1 (2012)

Author : Martin Howard
Publisher : Mdpi AG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3036516484

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The Acquisition of French as a Second Language by Martin Howard Pdf

Focusing on French, this collection of articles spans different facets of second language acquisition research, including different areas of a learner's language system in French such as the development of verbal, nominal, and adjectival morphology. Other articles explore input matters relating to the learner's language exposure as well as the role of individual factors in the learner's developmental trajectory. The studies presented offer insight into contemporary developments in relation to the investigation of both well-established and newer emerging themes and issues in second language acquisition research and showcase the contributions of French in such work. They draw on different approaches and methods to offer an exploration of contemporary areas of focus in French second language acquisition among learners of different source languages, at different levels of development, and in different learning contexts.

Author : Emmanuel N. Kwofie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : UOM:39015052938209

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The Acquisition and Use of French as a Second Language in Africa by Emmanuel N. Kwofie Pdf

Author : Philippe Prévost,Johanne Paradis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295774

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The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts by Philippe Prévost,Johanne Paradis Pdf

This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories) across different contexts in French learners: i.e. first language acquisition, second language acquisition, bilingual first language acquisition and specifically-language impaired acquisition. This permits readers to see how similar issues and morphosyntactic properties can be investigated in a range of various acquisition situations, and in turn, how each context can contribute to our general understanding of how these morphosyntactic properties are acquired in all learners of the same language. This state-of-the-art collection is enhanced by an introductory chapter that provides background on current formal generative theory, as well as a summary and synthesis of the major trends emerging from the individual studies regarding the acquisition of different functional categories across different learner contexts in French.

Author : Moustapha Fall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000030785

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The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition by Moustapha Fall Pdf

This text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study conducted in primary schools in Senegal. In addition, the volume provides an in-depth look at the linguistic history of Senegal before, during, and after French colonialism. The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition discusses the socio-linguistic landscape and ethnolinguistic composition of Senegal and its effect on the second language acquisition. An in-depth analysis of children’s phonological awareness, decoding, and reading comprehension in French reveals significant disparities in the literacy skills of Wolof children who have been exposed to Arabic and Qur’anic texts prior to schooling, and those who have not. In doing so, the text explores the impacts of post-colonial language policies in Africa, highlights the pedagogical consequences of mother tongue illiteracy, and questions the use of French as the only language of instruction in Senegalese schools. This detailed research text will of great interest and use to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, professionals and policy makers in the field of Second Language Acquisition, Multicultural Education, Applied Linguistics, French language education and, Language Policy and Planning.

Author : Philippe Prévost
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288851

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The Acquisition of French by Philippe Prévost Pdf

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. This approach allows for multiple comparisons across acquisition contexts, which provides the reader with invaluable insights into the nature of the acquisition process. The book is divided into four parts each dealing with a major morphosyntactic domain of acquisition: the verbal domain, the pronominal domain, the nominal domain, and the CP domain. Each part contains four chapters, the first one presenting an overview of the basic facts and analyses of the relevant properties of French, and the next three focusing on the different acquisition contexts. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of French and in language development in general. It is also meant to stimulate cross-linguistic research from a theoretical perspective.

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Katrin Schmitz,Natascha Müller
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094547

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The Acquisition of French in Multilingual Contexts by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes,Katrin Schmitz,Natascha Müller Pdf

This volume brings together new research from different theoretical paradigms addressing the acquisition of French. It focuses on the acquisition of French in combination with English, German, Russian or Spanish and enriches our understanding of the particularities of French and the role of language combinations in the acquisition process. The chapters examine the development of different grammatical aspects (word order phenomena, adjective placement, dislocation and cleft constructions, wh-questions, DP phenomena, argument omissions and constructions with particular word groups) and use various methodologies (such as elicitation tasks, longitudinal studies and parsing experiments) to further add to our understanding of how French is acquired in different contexts. This book will be a resource for researchers and graduate students working in the discipline of language acquisition, especially those who are interested in language contact phenomena where two typologically different languages are involved.

Author : Fred R. Eckman,Jean Mileham,Rita Rutkowski Weber,Diane Highland,Peter W. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135448981

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Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy by Fred R. Eckman,Jean Mileham,Rita Rutkowski Weber,Diane Highland,Peter W. Lee Pdf

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown by the fact that the two disciplines have established themselves as areas of study not only distinct from each other, but also different from linguistic theory. This was not always the case, at least not in the United States. The anomaly results from the fact that this book deals with the relationship between L2 theory and pedagogy despite the conclusion that there is currently no widely-accepted theory of SLA. Grouped into five sections, the papers in this volume: * consider questions about L2 theory and pedagogy at the macro-level, from the standpoint of the L2 setting; * consider input in terms of factors which are internal to the learner; * examine the question of external factors affecting the input, such as the issue of whether points of grammar can be explicitly taught; * deal with questions of certain complex, linguistic behaviors and the various external and social variables that influence learners; and * discuss issues surrounding the teaching of pronunciation factors that affect a non-native accent.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289940

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Studies in French Applied Linguistics by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields. The five chapters of the first part are dedicated to the first and second language acquisition of French in various settings: First language acquisition by normal children from a generative perspective and by children with Specific Language Impairment; second language acquisition in Canadian immersion settings, from a neurolinguistic approach to phonology and natural language processing and CALL. The six chapters of the second part explore the contribution of French in various subfields of applied linguistics such as an anthropological approach to literacy issues in Guadeloupean Kréyòl, literacy issues in new technologies, phonological and lexical innovations in the banlieues, French in North Africa, language planning and policy in Quebec, as well as the emerging field of forensic linguistics from an historical perspective.

Author : Kathleen M. Bailey,Michael H. Long,Sabrina Peck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012208974

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Second Language Acquisition Studies by Kathleen M. Bailey,Michael H. Long,Sabrina Peck Pdf

Selected papers of the third Los Angeles Second Language Research Forum

Author : Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415338697

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Second Language Acquisition by Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor Pdf

Second Language Acquisition : introduces the key areas in the field, including: multilingualism, the role of teaching, the mental processing of multiple languages, and patterns of growth and decline explores the key theories and debates and elucidates areas of controversy gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Vivian Cook, William E. Dunn and James P. Lantolf, S.P. Corder, and Nina Spada and Patsy Lightbown. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Second Language Acquisition is an essential resource for students and researchers of applied linguistics.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271785

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The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the expression of the present and future temporalities with rare exceptions (aside from ESL learners), leaving unanswered the question of how the investigation of different types of temporality may inform our understanding of the acquisition of temporal, aspectual and mood systems as a whole. This monograph addresses this question by focusing on three main objectives: a) to contribute to the already impressive body of research in the L2 acquisition of tense, aspect and mood/modality from a generative perspective, and in so doing to present a more complete picture of the processes of L2 acquisition in general; b) to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and L2 acquisition; c) to make empirical findings more accessible to language instructors by proposing concrete pedagogical applications.

Author : Susan M. Gass,Larry Selinker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0805835288

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Second Language Acquisition by Susan M. Gass,Larry Selinker Pdf

This book is a thorough revision of the highly successful text first published in 1994. The authors retain the multidisciplinary approach that presents research from linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, in a format designed for use in an introductory course for undergraduate or graduate students. The research is updated throughout and there are new sections and chapters in this second edition as well. New chapters cover child language acquisition (first and second), Universal Grammar, and instructed language learning; new sections address issues, such as what data analysis doesn't show, replication of research findings, interlanguage transfer (multilingual acquisition and transfer), the aspect hypothesis, general nativism, connectionist approaches, and implicit/explicit knowledge. Major updates include nonlanguage influences and the lexicon. The workbook, Second Language Learning Data Analysis, Second Edition, makes an ideal accompaniment to the text.

Author : Richard Towell,Roger D. Hawkins
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 185359234X

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Approaches to Second Language Acquisition by Richard Towell,Roger D. Hawkins Pdf

Examines five central issues of second-language acquisition: transfer, staged development, cross-learner systematicity, incompleteness and variability.

Author : Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282767

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The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language by Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll Pdf

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to express spatial relations in the target languages English, French and German. Learners' progress in the expression of spatial relations is closely followed over a period of 30 months using a wide range of oral data, and the factors determining both the specifics of individual source/target language pairings, and the general characteristics of all cases of acquisition studied, are carefully described. In particular, a basic system for the expression of spatial relations common to all learners from all language backgrounds is identified. The book is of particular significance for the field of second language acquisition in that this is the first time that results are presented in English on the acquisition of L2 means to express the basic cognitive — and communicational — category of space from a comparative linguistic point of view.