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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"French language"”.
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The French-language Reception of Grimms’ ‘Rotkappchen’ 1868-1948
… Kinder- und Hausmärchen. But how might the French reaction to the Grimm ‘version’ be reflected in subsequent French translations, and especially during periods of Franco-German conflict? This is the pivotal question addressed in the four chapters of this thesis. The first chapter focuses on …
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A Corrective Feedback Intervention in a Minority French Language School
Abstract Educators in French schools in southern Ontario are challenged with the task of increasing their students’ oral linguistic ability in French within their predominantly English-speaking surroundings. Additionally, teachers wonder how they can provide guidance without discouraging students’ …
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Motivations for Studying French: Language Orientations and Expectancy-Value Theory
French enrollment is not increasing at the rate of other modern languages in higher education in the United States. This study attempted to bring to light the reasons for studying the language and focused on the orientations, expectancies, and values students have for studying French at a large, …
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Student Programming and Identity in French Language Studies at an Ontario College
… following questions: Why do students enroll in French, and in what ways do the students position themselves to learning French? What kinds of social issues do they confront when coming back? How do such issues impact their identities? Using the frameworks developed within sociocultural second …
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Education Language Policy and Bilingual Education: The Impact of French Language Policy in Primary Education in Niger
… program which advocates the use of regional languages (Hausa, Zarma-Songhai, Fulfulde, Kanuri and Tamajeq) along with French in primary education. The regional languages must serve first as means of instruction from first up to fourth grade, while French is taught as a subject; and in fifth …
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"This is the fluffy robot that only speaks French" : language use between preschoolers, their families, and a social robot while sharing virtual toys
This thesis proposes an approach to language learning for preschool aged children using social robots as conversation partners within a shared play context for children and their families. It addresses an underserved age for language learning, where early learning can greatly impact later …
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The Perceived Value of Open Educational Resources (OER) by Francophone Linguistic Minority Students in a Post-Secondary Educational (PSE) Setting
… Francophone students are linguistic minority. French language academic resources are often more expensive, difficult to locate, and sometimes not available at all for niche subject areas. This often results in barriers to access learning materials. The unequal access to learning materials is an …
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Diverse Pathways, Common Themes: A Complexity-Informed, Human-Oriented Comparative Case Study of Teacher Candidates' Experiences of French Language Proficiency Development in Concurrent Teacher Preparation in Ontario
This dissertation explores the French-language-proficiency development experiences of diverse teacher candidates (TCs) in two concurrent teacher preparation programs in Ontario, Canada, where French is a minority language and many future teachers of French as a Second Language (FSL) use it as an …
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Quel français pour les étudiants de la faculté de droit de l'Université du Cap?
… Cape Town (UCT) has been and is still offering French language, through its French Section. Those enrolling in the named French language programme are undergraduate students of different faculties of the University of Cape Town including the faculty of law. The variety of French that these …
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L'ecriture hybride dans le roman francophone African et Antillais : resemblances et differences
… and generic levels. Caribbean writers mix the French language with Creole words as a way to symbolize the cultural hybridity of their society. African writers use neologism, as a way to say that they can adapt the European political systems to their countries, without mixing the European …
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A study of english loanwords in French written texts and advertisements and the perceptions and attitudes of the francophone readership
… of the use of English loanwords (ELWs) in the French language remains incompletely understood. This study examined the frequency and types of ELWs appearing in French written texts (FWTs) and advertisements (ads); and also explored the perceptions of natives of France toward this usage. To …
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“I didn’t have time to find the English words”: The Korean War’s Role in the Evolution of Bilingualism in the Canadian Armed Forces
… Korean War on the evolution of the role of the French language in the Canadian military between 1946 and 1954. It explains how the Korean War acted as both a catalyst for a more accommodating stance towards the French language in the Canadian Armed Forces, and an immediate impediment to the …
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"Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston
… namely mothering, migration, and minority language, intersect with experiences of places to orient their subjectivities, their material conditions and practices, and their future possibilities in various ways. These intersections of life stories and places shape particular configurations of …
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Étude Descriptive et Comparative du Programme de Français au Nigeria et en Saskatchewan
Teaching and learning a new language in a culturally and linguistically diversified country can be very challenging, and Nigeria is no exception to this. Although the country has declared French as its second official language in 1996 in an official declaration by the late Head of State Sani …
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Le français en Sierra Leone : apprentissage et développement du capital humain
… the following questions: What is the status of French teaching/learning in basic and secondary education in Sierra Leone? How can learning French contribute to the development and strengthening of human capital in Sierra Leone? Using the approaches developed within human capital development …
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"Grammaticalite De L'accord Du Participe Passe Conjugue Avec Avoir Dans Le ""Journal De La Langue Francaise"" d'Urbain Domergue"
… century, the notions of the ""genius"" of the French language and ""clarity"" of its style were often evoked in descriptions of the French language, exemplified by Antoine Rivarol, among others. Throughout the eighteenth century, grammarians seek to explain French grammar from this perspective, …
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Immersion Within Call
… what constitutes immersion in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). CALL has increasingly become important in the field of SLA (Second Language Acquisition) and continues to grow in usage each year. As a graduate instructor of a basic level French course, my research focused on the …
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Die Idee der Verbindung von Musik und Poesie im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts
… often been cited as a symbol for the efforts of French humanists in the 16th century to realize a close union between music and poetry derived from the antique ideal of musiké. It arose from the ideas of the Pléiade, a French group of poets that led French Renaissance humanism to its climax in …
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A Morphological Study of French Neologisms
<p>The French language, like all languages, is evolving continuously. Part of this evolution is the appearance of neologisms and the development of new meanings for existing words. Studying these neologisms from a morphological approach can allow for a deeper understanding of where French is coming …
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"Elements of Language Variation in Palsgrave's ""Lesclarcissement De La Langue Francoyse"" (1530)"
… with his observations on variation in French. Palsgrave's goal was to formulate a set of grammatical rules which would thoroughly describe the French language for English learners, and he incorporated both literary and non-literary varieties in his model of description. I identify the …
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