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María Sampedro Mella; Claudia Sánchez Gutiérrez – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The use of the Spanish pronouns of address "tú" and "usted" is an intricate matter for L2 learners due to the many factors that influence their selection at the discourse and interactional level. Although the literature has traditionally focused on the challenges experienced by L1-English learners of L2-Spanish in learning…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, French, Portuguese
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Lyster, Roy; Mori, Hirohide – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Immersion Programs
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MacIntyre, Peter D.; Baker, Susan C.; Clement, Richard; Conrod, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
Hypothesized that orientations toward language learning (L2) as well as social support would influence students willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language. Grade 9 L2 students of French immersion participated in the study. Results showed endorsement of all five orientations (travel, job related, friendship with Francophones, personal…
Descriptors: French, Grade 9, Immersion Programs, Learning Motivation
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Swain, Merrill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1981
Describes immersion education as practiced in Canada, outlining immersion programs' background, structure, methodology, and outcomes. Suggests that, to achieve the outcomes of immersion education developed for majority language groups, some minority language groups may require programs beginning in the first language and continuing in both the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, FLES, French
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Hammerly, Hector – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1992
Reasserts, in response to a review of a book about language immersion programs, that the linguistic failure of immersion programs has major theoretical implications, focusing on the failure of immersion students to reach nativelike language proficiency and the failure to emphasize language accuracy. (two references) (CB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), French, Immersion Programs, Instructional Effectiveness
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Harley, Birgit – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993
The potential of various instructional strategies for promoting second-language acquisition among child second-language (L2) learners is considered in relation to empirical findings in early French immersion programs. Several principles are proposed concerning code-focused L2 instruction in a communicatively oriented school-based acquisition…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, French
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Gundel, Jeanette K.; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1984
Uses data from English-speaking children learning French in the Toronto French Immersion Program as evidence to support the 1981 study by Gundel and Tarone on the acquisition of pronouns by Chinese- and Spanish-speaking adults learning English. This study concluded that the acquisition of direct object pronouns proceeds in three stages. (SED)
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), French, Immersion Programs
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Harley, Birgit; King, Mary Lou – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Compares the lexical proficiency of 69 grade 6 immersion students with that of 22 native French-speaking peers, based on verb use and in 5 written compositions. Measures of lexical error, variety, specificity, and sophistication show clear differences between the two groups. (33 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, French, Grade 6
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Lyster, Roy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Examines aspects of communicative classroom discourse that may affect the potential of recasts to be noticed as negative evidence by young second-language learners. The database comprises transcripts of over 18 hours of interaction recorded during 27 lessons in four immersion classrooms at the primary level. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Classroom Communication, Databases, Discourse Analysis
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Rehner, Katherine; Mougeon, Raymond; Nadasdi, Terry – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper synthesizes research on the acquisition of linguistic variation by learners of French as a second language--an overview that, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. It also presents a case study on French immersion students' acquisition of the pronouns "nous" and "on" "we," an alternation in many varieties of spoken French. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, French, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Lyster, Roy; Ranta, Leila – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Examined corrective feedback and learner response to feedback in four primary level immersion classes. Transcripts of classroom interactions from subject-matter and French language arts lessons were analyzed using a model comprising the various moves in an error treatment sequence. Findings reveal a strong tendency for teachers to use recasts…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students