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Starkey-Perret, Rebecca; Belan, Sophie; Lê Ngo, Thi Phuong; Rialland, Guillaume – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter presents and discusses the results of a large-scale pilot study carried out in the context of a task-based, blended-learning Business English programme in the Foreign Languages and International Trade department of a French University . It seeks to explore the effects of pre-task planned Focus on Form (FonF) on accuracy in students'…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Amenós-Pons, José; Ahern, Aoife; Gujarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This paper examines the process of acquiring L2s that are closely related to the L1 through data on how adult French speakers learning L2 Spanish in a formal setting develop knowledge and use of past tenses in this L2. We consider the role of transfer and simplification in acquiring mental representations of the L2 grammar, specifically in the…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Transfer of Training, Spanish
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Sarré, Cédric, Ed.; Whyte, Shona, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This volume intends to address key issues related to research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching and learning by bringing together current research at the intersection of the theoretical and practical dimensions of ESP. Readers will discover a treasury of information they will find useful to their own understanding of research into…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Needs Assessment
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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
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Geiller, Luc – The EUROCALL Review, 2014
This paper presents the findings of an experiment in which a group of 17 French post-secondary EFL learners used Google to self-correct several "untreatable" written errors. Whether or not error correction leads to improved writing has been much debated, some researchers dismissing it is as useless and others arguing that error feedback…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Error Correction