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Speaking Spanish like a Boy Scout: Language Socialization, Resistance, and Reproduction in a Heritage Language Scout Troop
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Guardado, Martin – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article offers a critical analysis of the language socialization of Spanish-speaking families in a Scout group in Metro Vancouver. Using tools of discourse analysis, the article examines the language use patterns of the participants, particularly focusing on the language ideologies to which they oriented themselves and the identities indexed…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Ideology, Socialization, Criticism
Quelques aspects de la negation: Comparaison de l'anglais et du francais (Some Aspects of Negation: Comparison of English and French).
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Pons-Ridler, Suzanne; Quillard, Genevieve – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1991
The differential usage of negative forms in French and English is analyzed. French-speakers tend to use negatives often, as in negative questions and impersonal phrases. Study of translations also shows that many words with a positive equivalent in French are translated by a negative word or phrase. (five references) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, French, Language Patterns
Learner Code-Switching in the Content-Based Foreign Language Classroom
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Liebscher, Grit; Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
Using a framework based on conversation analysis (Auer, 1984, 1995, 1998), this article presents an analysis of learner code-switching between L1 and L2 in an advanced foreign language (FL) classroom. It was found that students code-switch not only as a fallback method when their knowledge of the L2 fails them, or for other participant-related…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism
De L'Economie des moyens linguistiques en francais et en anglais dans l'usage standard contemporain (On the Economy of Linguistic Means in French and English Standard Contemporary Usage).
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Calve, Pierre – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
The conciseness and "ease of use" often attributed to North American English relative to French in standard contemporary usage is explained in terms of English morpho-syntactic structure and of the values of the classical norm and rhetoric affecting French. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, French, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
L'Onomatopee dans la classe de francais (Onomatopoeia in the French Class).
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Brunet, Jean-Paul – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
Onomatopoeia is overlooked in many French grammar courses but plays a key role in everyday speech. Classification according to the feelings communicated stresses their importance. Students enjoy learning the sounds produced by animals in a second language and discovering the abundance of onomatopoeia in songs, commercials, comic books, and slang.…
Descriptors: Advertising, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Comics (Publications)