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Peer reviewedGiacomi, Alain; Vion, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The acquisition of narrative competence in French by an Arabic-speaking migrant worker in interactions with target language speakers was explored, with hypotheses formed about the polyfunctional uses of certain forms to mark the chronology of events in the narrative or to introduce quoted speech. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, Arabic, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
