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Focus on French as a Foreign Language : Multidisciplinary Approaches / edited by Jean-Marc Dewaele. - 1st ed. - Toronto, ON : Multilingual Matters, 2005. - x, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Second Language Acquisition .

Volume 10 in the Second Language Acquisition Series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Psycholinguistic studies on the acquisition of French as a second language: the 'learner variety' approach / Marzena Watorek and Clive Perdue Chapter 2: Discourse structuring in advanced L2 French: the relative clause / Victorine Hancock and Nathalie Kirchmeyer Chapter 3: Adverbs and functional categories in L1 and L2 acquisition of French / Suzanne Schlyter Chapter 4: The emergence and use of the plus-que-parfait in advanced French interlanguage / Martin Howard Chapter 5: The emergence of morpho-syntactic structure in French L2 / Florence Myles Chapter 6: Syntactic and semantic issues in the acquisition of negation in French / Daniel Véronique Chapter 7: Gender and number in French L2: can we find out more about the constraints on production in L2? / Mireille Prodeau Chapter 8: The development of gender attribution and gender agreement in French: a comparison of bilingual first and second language learners / Jonas Granfeldt Chapter 9: From speech community back to classroom: what variation analysis can tell us about the role of context in the acquisition of French as a foreign language / Vera Regan Chapter 10: The role of psycholinguistic factors in the development of fluency amongst advanced learners of French / Richard Towell and Jean-Marc Dewaele Bibliography Index

"Ten original contributions from international academics consider the acquisition of French as a second language. They cover the full range of learners and users, from beginners to advanced students, from different linguistic backgrounds. The approaches examined include functionalism, universal grammar, psycholinguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics. Editor Dewaele teaches French and applied linguistics at the U. of London." (Book Cover)

185359766X (pbk) 9781853597664 (pbk)

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French language--Acquisition.
Interlanguage (Language learning).

PC2074.85 / .F63 2005

Propulsé par Koha