TY - BOOK AU - Dewaele,Jean-Marc TI - Focus on French as a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches SN - 185359766X (pbk) AV - PC2074.85 .F63 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Toronto, ON PB - Multilingual Matters KW - French language KW - Acquisition KW - Interlanguage (Language learning) N1 - 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 VĂ©ronique; 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 N2 - "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) UR - http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781853597664 UR - https://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/1lm0b9c/alma991009274309705161 ER -