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Multimedia Instruction in Foreign Language Classrooms: Effects on the Acquisition of the French Perfective and Imperfective Distinction
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Izquierdo, Jesús – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
This study examined multimedia instruction (MI) effects on the development of the French prototypical and non-prototypical past forms among Hispanophone learners. During 4 weeks of classroom instruction, participants were exposed to MI in one of 4 conditions: learners at early stages of past-tense development received MI including prototypical (n…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Second Language Instruction, French, Morphemes
Considering the Cloze.
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Steinman, Linda – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2002
Discusses the cloze procedure, in which words of a passage are deleted and the reader is asked to supply the missing word. Provides five different options for using the cloze procedure; illustrations of each option are appended. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
Learning and Reception Strategy Use and the Cloze Procedure.
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Black, Janis H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1993
A study investigated the learning and reception strategies used by six learners of college-level French, tested by completion of a rational cloze passage. The analysis focused on the effect of frequency, quality, and clustering of strategies on performance. Results suggest quality and clustering are most significant. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cloze Procedure, College Students, French
Rational Cloze and Retrospection: Insights into First and Second Language Reading Comprehension.
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MacLean, Margaret; d'Anglejan, Alison – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1986
Reports a study which investigated the use of rational cloze procedure in conjunction with retrospection or introspection assessment techniques to examine how individuals understand text in both first and second languages, especially the use of contextual constraints. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, English, French
The Development of Aspectual Distinctions in L2 French Classroom Learning.
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Salaberry, M. Rafael – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
A study analyzed development of French aspectual markers in 39 college students of French as a second language and 30 native French-speaking students. Results indicate classroom instruction may increase the rate at which learners develop this knowledge, and that lack of access to second-language discursive-pragmatic conditions may prevent learning…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, French, Grammar
The Impact of Attending to Unstressed Words on the Acquisition of Written Grammatical Morphology by French-Speaking ESL Students.
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Morris, Lori; Tremblay, Michel – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2002
Reports findings of a classroom experiment involving French-speaking English-as-a-Second-Language learners. An experimental group did weekly cloze dictation activities designed to focus their attention on unstressed grammatical words. Learners' accuracy in verbal and nominal morphology on the pre- and post-tests revealed the experimental group…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Analyses quantitatives et qualitatives des tests cloze: syntaxe et semantique (Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Cloze Tests: Syntax and Semantics).
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Connors, Kathleen; Toker, Mia Beer – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Linguistic and statistical analyses of cloze tests as a measure of second language competence revealed qualitative and quantitative differences between the performances of Anglophone immersion and French control groups. The diagnostic limitations of the procedure and the usefulness of the linguistic information derived from it are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Diagnostic Tests, English, French
La lecture en science (Reading in Science).
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Rivard, Leonard Paul – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Strategies for facilitating the reading of scientific textual materials are described, including establishing the reading level of the text, decoding figures and illustrations, recognizing the text's organization, inferring and remembering word meanings, sampling the text and inferring meaning, reading attentively to verify predictions, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Data Interpretation