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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"French as a foreign language"”.
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Motivational Orientations of American and Russian Learners of French as a Foreign Language
… examine and compare motivational orientations of French learners across different dimensions: cultural background (USA vs. Russia), educational modality and age (college students vs. private courses learners), gender, and time of studying foreign language. 613 American and Russian learners of …
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The relationship between ethnocentrism and achievement in beginning learners of French as a foreign language
Ethnocentrism, the perception of one's ingroup as superior to outgroups, visibly increased in the United States recently as evidenced by a rise in both expressions of patriotism toward the U.S. and negative attitudes toward arabs during and following the Gulf War. Given this rise in ethnocentrism, …
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And ever shall be? A model for teaching French as a foreign language in South African tertiary institutions
The assumption underpinning the thesis is that the current teaching of French at South African universities caters imperfectly for learner needs and fails to reflect pedagogical practice and learning theories appropriate to the twenty-first century. Firstly, so as to contextualise that teaching, …
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O texto literário capital cultural no ensino / aprendizagem de francês língua estrangeira
This dissertation has the purpose of rethinking the importance of the literary text in the process of teaching / leaming French as a Foreign Language. It regards the literary text as being an authentic document which is often overlooked in didatic activities devised for teaching French to …
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French for refugee service providers
This dissertation entitled French for Refugee Service Providers, aims to provide a curriculum for teaching French as a Foreign Language to those working with French-speaking refugees in South Africa. Firstly, the context of the project is thoroughly discussed, which substantiates the importance of …
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Memoire : formation des enseignants de FLE dans les ecoles secondaires de Mutare au Zimbabwe : analyse des besoins et plan de formation
Ce mémoire est un des requis des études de Masters TFFL (Teaching French as a Foreign Language) à UCT (University of Cape Town) dont le but est de montrer l’acquisition des compétences par la mise en place d’une recherche-développement. Il porte sur la formation des enseignants de FLE (Français …
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Moksleivių motyvacija mokytis prancūzų kalbos frankofoniškose ir įprastose klasėse /
… topic: student’s motivation towards learning French as a foreign language. French is taught in most Lithuanian educational institutions as a freely chosen second foreign language starting in the 5th or 6th grade. Some schools use a content language integrated learning (CLIL) approach for …
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Les obstacles qui inhibent la prise de parole en classe de FLE : le cas des cours de francais dispenses a l'universite du Cap (UCT)
… the obstacles that impede oral expression in the French as a foreign language classroom in the context of the courses taught at the University of Cape Town (UCT). To achieve this aim, we questioned the first year students of French who constituted the main thrust of our research. After carrying …
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Student Motivation and Identity Construction in an Intensive U.S. French Immersion Program
… through their multiple experiences learning French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in an intensive Summer French Language Immersion Programs (SFLIPs). The results of the study demonstrate that participants who exhibited the most characteristics in connection to integrative motivation were the …
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L'ordinateur versus le portable en classe de FLE pour travailer l'oral de la mouvelle generation
… oral skills using a cellphone in teaching French as a foreign language, and then discovering whether a specific audience, the new generation, prefer working on computers or cell phones when it comes to their oral skills. To achieve this objective, we created a series of activites using a …
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Discourse‐pragmatic features of spoken French: analysis and pedagogical implications
… focuses on selected discourse features of spoken French, especially those typical of present-day youth language. The dissertation has two parts: 1) Analysis of features typical of spoken language, based on a corpus of recorded data from young people aged 20 to 30, speaking to each other in …
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Le français en Sierra Leone : apprentissage et développement du capital humain
… policies and programs to provide quality basic and secondary education, reduce poverty and enhance resources in public and government-assisted schools. This research aims to answer the following questions: What is the status of French teaching/learning in basic and secondary education in …
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L'élaboration d'un curriculum de français pour les chefs de mission sud-africains
This study aims to develop a French curriculum that is responsive to the specific needs of South African Heads of Mission. Firstly, the context highlights the role of Heads of Mission in the implementation of South Africa's foreign policy against the backdrop of the history of diplomacy and South …
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Stratégies et représentations de l'apprentissage du français langue étrangère chez des lycéens vietnamiens : description et étude de leur rapport avec les compétences linguistiques
Strategies that language learners use and their beliefs about language learning are fields that have interested many researchers in recent years. So, what are language learning strategies used by Vietnamese learners of French as foreign language? What are their beliefs concerning language learning? …
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L’étude du Français comme matière dans un contexte anglophone : Le cas de trois Établissements postsecondaires au Ghana
The French language is the fifth most spoken language in the world and the fourth most used language on the Internet, with over 300 million speakers in the world and 132 million French learners. In addition to this, Africa is home to 59 % of daily French speakers, according to the Organisation …
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L'efficacité du programme de l'année à l'étranger pour les étudiants de français au Ghana: perspectives des professeurs et des étudiants
The growing interest in learning French in Ghana has become markedly noticeable. This increase can be attributed to a strategic emphasis placed on French education by the Ghanaian government, driven by the country's close proximity to francophone neighbors like Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and Togo. …
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The effect of supplemental homework tasks involving referential questions on learners' target language linguistic output and accuracy
… accuracy. The study had three components. A quasi-experimental design with treatment and control groups examined quantitatively the performance of students on a set of variables, including number of words, number of T-units, clause length, coordination, subordination, grammatical accuracy, …
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L’interaction linguistique en français québécois et ses implications pour l’enseignement du FLE : une étude de l’usage des sacres en français québécois avec une comparaison interculturelle de l’usage des jurons en maltais
In the French-speaking world, the Canadian province of Quebec distinguishes itself through the use a varied set of swearwords inspired by the Roman Catholic religion (les sacres). In this study, these swearwords are approached from an interactionist viewpoint in order to establish a comparison …
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
One of the most difficult challenges of learning French as a foreign language is mastering the gender system. Although there are theories that account for how French native speakers (NSs) master their gender system, it is not fully understood why second language (L2) learners are unable to do the …
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Oral Corrective Feedback, Individual Differences, and L2 Acquisition of French Past Tenses
… of two types of oral corrective feedback in a foreign language classroom: recasts as an input-providing strategy and clarification requests as an output-prompting strategy (Ellis, 2006; Ellis & Sheen, 2011). Drawing on the Interaction hypothesis (Long, 1981a, 1983b, 1996) both strategies can be …
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