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Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Myriam Bras; Fanny Martin; Marianne Vergez-Couret; Pascale Erhart; Jean Sibille; Amalia Todirascu; Philippe Boula de Mareüil; Dominique Huck – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In contrast to French, the vast majority of regional languages of France can be considered as under-resourced. In this article, we present the results of a research project aiming to produce annotated resources for three regional languages of France: Alsatian, Occitan, and Picard. These languages cover three different language families (Germanic…
Descriptors: French, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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Linares, Emily – L2 Journal, 2022
Largely banished from language instruction following the adoption of communicative approaches, some researchers now encourage the use of translation as a valuable resource for the language classroom. While increasingly embraced in theory, there remains a need to better understand, through empirical research, the implementation of translation-based…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nolan, John Shaun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper examines the transmission patterns of Eastern Brittany's Romance language variety, Gallo, based on quantitative data showing learning patterns of school pupils of the language and their parents in 2003 and 2004. Results confirm the sharp decline in Gallo transmission between generations. Nevertheless, Gallo transmission has not…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles