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Learners' Pronunciations of Familiar and Unfamiliar French Words: What Can They Tell Us about Phonological Decoding in an L2?
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Woore, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2018
Phonological decoding, defined here as converting the written forms of words (or letter strings) into the phonological forms they represent, has been argued to play an important role in various aspects of L2 learning. Previous studies have emphasised the importance of transfer in L2 decoding, interpretable as the automatic triggering of L1-based…
Descriptors: Phonology, French, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
Thinking Aloud about L2 Decoding: An Exploration of the Strategies Used by Beginner Learners when Pronouncing Unfamiliar French Words
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Woore, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2010
"Decoding"--converting the written symbols (or graphemes) of an alphabetical writing system into the sounds (or phonemes) they represent, using knowledge of the language's symbol/sound correspondences--has been argued to be an important but neglected skill in the teaching of second language (L2) French in English secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Phonemes
Beginners' Progress in Decoding L2 French: Some Longitudinal Evidence from English Modern Foreign Languages Classrooms
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Woore, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2009
"Decoding"--converting the written symbols (or graphemes) of an alphabetical writing system into the sounds (or phonemes) they represent, using knowledge of the language's symbol/sound correspondences--has been argued to be an important but neglected skill in the teaching of second language (L2) French in English secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Vocabulary Development, French
Do Near-Beginner Learners of French Have Any Writing Strategies?
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Macaro, Ernesto – Language Learning Journal, 2007
This article reports on a descriptive and exploratory study of near-beginner learners of French in English secondary schools, their cognitive and metacognitive strategies, and their general approaches to writing. There is virtually no research on foreign language writing at this level, conceived in this study as including the copying of words and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Metacognition