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What Is Sesame Street Doing to Our Language?

O'Connell, M. Sheila – BC Teacher, 1972

One of Canada's leading authorities on the teaching of language arts examines the award-winning television show, and has some reservations about it. (DM)

Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Problems, Educational Television, Language Patterns

Subject-Verb Agreement in Newfoundland French.

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King, Ruth – Language Variation and Change, 1994

Examined a nonstandard pattern of agreement found in certain varieties of Atlantic Canada Acadian French. Quantitative analysis of subject-verb agreement patterns in Newfoundland French revealed consistent invariant behavior in this dialect, or, where there is variation, variation constrained according to specific linguistically based factors. (19…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians, Language Patterns

Certains problemes linguistiques des Franco-ontariens (Certain Linguistic Problems of Franco-Ontarians). Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 9.

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Mougeon, Raymond; Carroll, Suzanne – 1976

This study examines the usage of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" in the passe compose and pluperfect. The study is primarily based on a sample of French written by agroup of grade 9 Franco-Ontarian pupils from the Sudbury region. The students' written French is shown to include a high proportion of cases where intransitive…

Descriptors: Error Patterns, French, Grammar, Language Instruction

Certains Problemes Linguistiques des Jeunes Franco-Ontariens (devxieme partie) (Certain Linguistic Problems of Young Franco-Ontarians [part 2].) Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 10.

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Mougeon, Raymond; Carroll, Susanne – 1975

This study examines the usage of preposition "pour" in the written and spoken French of two groups of Grade 9 and 12 Franco-Ontarian bilingual students from Welland and from the Sudbury area. Both the students' written and spoken French are shown to include a substantial proportion of constructions with "pour" which deviate…

Descriptors: Bilingual Students, English, Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages)