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Task-Based Language Teaching for Beginner-Level Learners of L2 French: An Exploratory Study
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Erlam, Rosemary; Ellis, Rod – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This study investigated the effect of input-based tasks on the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar by beginner-level learners of L2 French and reported the introduction of task-based teaching as an innovation in a state secondary school. The experimental group (n = 19) completed a series of focused input-based language tasks, taught by their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Linguistic Input, Grammar
Receptive Knowledge of Intensifying Adjectival Compounds: Belgian French-Speaking CLIL and Non-CLIL Learners of Dutch and English
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Hendrikx, Isa; Van Goethem, Kristel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Languages differ in their preferences for particular intensifying constructions. While intensifying adjectival compounds (IACs) (e.g. "ijskoud, ice-cold") are productively used to express intensification in Dutch and English, in French this construction is hardly productive. Consequently, French-speaking learners may encounter…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
"The More the Merrier"--Revisiting CLIL-Based Vocabulary Growth in Secondary Education
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Gierlinger, Erwin Maria; Wagner, Thomas Arno – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
One crucial aspect of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)-based foreign language learning in instructional settings is vocabulary growth. As a consequence, research should be interested in how CLIL fosters vocabulary learning. Noticing an apparent shortage of data-driven quantitative research on vocabulary growth in this field of CLIL…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)