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Direct linkHenderson, Alice J.; Skarnitzl, Radek – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
This paper presents the results of a brief mixed-methods intervention which sought to modify the production of prominence-related features in L2 English by four native French-speaking university lecturers, in read-aloud speech. Selected parts of participants' productions were acoustically modified and then used as the model in a Listen-and-Repeat…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Models, Native Language, French
Download full textGrace Hui Chin Lin – Online Submission, 2024
The primary goal of this project is to assess the students' better communication attainment after applying a series of five interactive strategies to an experiment group of subjects. This class will be compared with a control group of other participants, and in their class, the interactive approaches are not emphasized and practiced openly. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kartal, Erdogan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2019
This study is about artificial neural network modeling of the linguistic challenges encountered by students learning Turkish as a foreign language in universities in France. The study was conducted in four universities where Turkish is taught as an optional foreign language. Sixty-six students whose mother tongues were either Arabic or French…
Descriptors: Turkish, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Aparicio, Xavier; Lavaur, Jean-Marc – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This study aims to examine language dominance and language switching effects in a series of monolingual and multilingual lexical decisions in which participants have to decide if the presented letter string is a word or not, regardless of language. Thirty participants (12 French-English bilinguals and 18 French-English-Spanish trilinguals) were…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
Ryder, Jane – ELT Journal, 2012
Educationalist Fred Korthagen elaborated a model in the 1980s for the relationship between the teacher educator and the teacher which embraces reflective practice as its guiding principle. In the present study, research was carried out into teacher development among a small group of language teachers working in continuing education in France.…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedTreffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Tests hypotheses from the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts the asymmetries between the mutual influences of the Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very powerful tool for describing the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedTreffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Summarizes a keynote address that tested hypotheses from the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts the asymmetries between the mutual influences of the Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedBeeching, Kate; Poplack, Shana; Meechan, Marjory; Sebba, Mark; Singh, Rajendra; Stolz, Thomas; Thomason, Sarah Grey; Winford, Donald – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Seven peer commentaries are provided in response to a paper that tested hypotheses from a model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts asymmetries between mutual influences of Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedTreffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Responds to peer commentaries written in response to a paper examining the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts asymmetries between mutual influences of Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Besse, Henri – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Traces the history of the "francais fondamental," concentrating on the period following its launching in 1951. (AM)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, French, Historical Reviews, History
Peer reviewedAlao, George – Journal of the African Language Teachers Association, 1999
Discusses the status of African language teaching abroad. Focuses on the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, the only institution in France where African Languages are taught. Suggests that the originality of the INALCO approach to teaching African Languages could serve as a model for other foreign institutions as…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Models, Program Descriptions
Meunier, Franck; Dutto, Estelle; Guillet, Stephane; Michau, Florence – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
This article puts forward a project approach and a set of solutions to better prepare foreign students wishing to enter engineering schools in France. It focuses on how we train students to understand scientific presentations through intensive listening comprehension. Within this framework, it proposes a new educational ICT model that is original…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Engineering Education, Listening Comprehension, Females
Wilbur, Marcia L.; LeLoup, Jean W.; Ponterio, Robert; Jones, Zachary; Nuhfer-Halten, Bernice; Gordon, Kenneth A.; Gardner, Steven M.; Mentley, Carlos; Signori, Lisa F.; Heusinkveld, Paula; Burns-Hoffman, Rebecca; Jones, Jennifer; Cohn, Christie; Cherry, C. Maurice, Ed. – Southern Conference on Language Teaching, 2006
"Dimension" is the annual volume containing the selected, refereed, edited Proceedings of each year's conference. The theme chosen for the joint conference of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) and the Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA) in Orlando, Florida, February 16-18, 2006, was "Languages for Today's…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
