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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"L2 French"”.
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Metacognitive Instruction in L2 French: An Analysis of Listening Performance and Automaticity
… and seven intact sections of second-semester French were randomly assigned to the control or experimental condition. The experimental groups were instructed in using metacognitive strategies to regulate the listening process while the control groups were simply exposed to the listening …
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Syntactic focus structure processing : behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from L1 and L2 French
… were behavioral studies of native and L2 speakers of French in which subjects made acceptability judgments of sentences containing felicitous or infelicitous information structure. In Experiment 1, there was evidence of a postmaturational effect of age of arrival on judgment task …
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Accent Marks in L2 French: Keyboarding, Presentation Format, Working Memory, and Pronunciation Ability
… was recorded and rated by native speakers of French. Results showed that typing led to better recall of accent marks, but these differences did not obtain on delayed (one week later) posttests. Number of keystrokes had no effect on participant performance on posttests measures. When comparing …
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Second language (L2) French students' and instructors' experiences of critical literacies pedagogy: A mixed methods program evaluation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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The Efficacy Of Corrective Feedback And Target Form Enhancement In Promoting Acquisition Of The À/Au/En/Aux Distinction In L2 French
… may be insufficient in fostering target-like L2 production skills (Swain, 1985; Hammerly, 1987; Klein & Perdue, 1997). As such, many SLA researchers (e.g., Long, 1991; 1996; 2007; Spada, 1997; Lyster, 1998; 2001; 2004) now advocate teacher use of negative feedback during communicative …
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À la recherche de la morphologie silencieuse : sur le développement du pluriel en francais L2 écrit
… with the morphological development in written L2 French by Swedish learners. The thesis presents a detailed analysis of number marking and agreement in NPs and VPs, focusing mainly on the production of the morphemes –s (in NP) and the third person plural –nt (in VP). These agreements are …
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Le paragraphe oral en français L1, en suédois L1 et en français L2 : étude syntaxique, prosodique et discursive
… defined by Morel and Danon-Boileau 1998, in L1 French, in L1 Swedish and in the L2 French production of two advanced Swedish learners. The corpus examined consists of seven informal spontaneous endolingual and exolingual conversations. The study is not only contrastive, but also longitudinal, in …
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Oral and writing strategies in French second language learning: An action research study
… extensive research conducted on second language (L2) learning over the years, there is no emerging distinct choice of L2 learning approach or strategy that single-handedly facilitates beginning second language learning. Research that seek to find out how beginning L2 learning is best facilitated …
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Structural transfer in third language acquisition: the case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English
… the claims of Cumulative Enhancement Model, the ‘L2 status factor’, and the Typological Primacy Model in investigating how L1 Lingala, L2 French speakers express in English an event which took place and was completed in the past. The linguistic phenomena under study inform us that English uses the …
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The effect of online translators on L2 writing in French
… in the literature about OT for second-language (L2) acquisition has generally focused either on the pedagogical and ethical issues surrounding online translators or on anecdotal discussions of errors researchers have encountered on such tools. This dissertation takes a different approach by …
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Production and perception of liaison by Anglophone learners of French
… liaison consonants by Anglophone learners of French. While second/foreign language (L2) phonology has long been recognized as an area of learner difficulty, there have been few studies on the acquisition of liaison by L2 learners of French. The two studies contained in this thesis hope to …
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The Elicited Imitation Task as a method for French proficiency assessment in institutional and research settings
… an Elicited Imitation Task (EIT) for evaluating French proficiency assessment in both research and classroom settings. The goal is to supplement the French tests used for placement at the University of Illinois. The motivation for the current research project comes from the observation that an …