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and others; Tucker, G. Richard – IRAL, 1969
Expanded version of report presented at meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association (Ottawa, 1967).
Descriptors: French, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary
Faraco, Martine – IRAL, 1995
This study examined interactive and traditional teaching methods in beginning-level French-as-a-Foreign-Language classes, focusing on the repetition behavior of learners. Contains 11 references. (MDM)
Descriptors: French, Introductory Courses, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sonaiya, Remi – IRAL, 1991
Examines the lexical errors made by students learning French as a foreign language, and proposes a new method for teaching vocabulary based on a lexical disambiguation model. (15 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), French, Models, Second Language Learning
Dubois, Betty Lou – IRAL, 1990
Comparison of human and machine French translations of independent clauses from an English journal article about physics found that automatic translation was generally faithful to the original thematization, although English complexities and lexical gaps caused the machine to lose, create, and garble some themes. The human translation, although…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, French, Interpretive Skills
Connors, Kathleen – IRAL, 1988
Uses a quantified version of a syntactic acquisition hierarchy to compare syntactic development in second language learners to that of other components of grammar, particularly inflectional morphology. (CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), French, German, Italian
Surridge, Marie E. – IRAL, 1993
Recent knowledge about the system of gender assignment in French is examined to suggest theoretical reasons why English speakers are so rarely successful in mastering the French gender assignment system for inanimate nouns. Morphological, phonetic, and semantic rules shed light on the system. (14 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French, Grammar
Legenhausen, Lienhard – IRAL, 1991
Explores the nature of code switching by comparing and contrasting learners' code-switching behavior with that of speakers in a bilingual speech community, hypothesizing that the more students succeed in overcoming the psychological dichotomy between themselves as learners and individuals, the less they will resort to code switching as a mode of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis, French
Buteau, Magdelhayne F. – IRAL, 1970
In analyzing the errors made in a French grammar test by intermediate level English-speaking learners of the language, it was found that not all mistakes could be accounted for by interference from the native language, but that other psychological factors were involved as well. (FB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, French
Lepetit, D.; Martin, Ph. – IRAL, 1990
Describes an investigation of the differences and similarities existing between the intonation systems of French and English. The unity of the procedures described here is confirmed by an analysis of intonational errors made by English-speaking learners of French. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Error Analysis (Language), French
Sciarone, A. G. – IRAL, 1970
Although critical of some of the claims made for contrastive analysis in the past, this article treats contrastive analysis as a useful pursuit which can contribute to language learning. (FB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Dutch
Bonnot, Jean-Francois P.; Spa, Jaap J. – IRAL, 1988
Phonetic deviations occurring in the French of native Dutch-speaking university students are explained by a theory stating that every new rule entering the learner's linguistic competence produces a hypercorrective correlate. The theory is said to permit prediction of the differences in timing between foreign and native learning of French. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, College Students, Dutch, French
Shen, Xianonan Susan – IRAL, 1990
Investigation of native Chinese speakers' acquisition of French suprasegmental features found that the subjects not only perceived the different directions of pitch but also placed them in the right categories, in spite of the differences between the use of pitch in tonal and intonational languages. (34 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Distinctive Features (Language), French, Intonation
Champagne-Muzar, C.; And Others – IRAL, 1993
A study of adults learning French as a second language showed that enhancing the pedagogical environment through development of a French phonetic training program resulted in improved discrimination and production ability among the students. (39 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries
A Longitudinal Study of a Tunisian Adolescent's Learning of English Morphemes in a Classroom Context
Ghrib, Esma Maamouri – IRAL, 1987
A longitudinal case study examining the learning of English (focusing on grammatical morphemes) by a Tunisian adolescent speaker of Arabic and French showed that the second language learner relies on his prior linguistic knowledge to facilitate new learning and that second language learning like first language acquisition is a creative process.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arabic, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language)
Allen, J. P. B. – IRAL, 1992
Reports on a process/product study undertaken to increase understanding of the nature of language instruction and its effect on language proficiency. Also discussed are a number of pedagogical issues arising from the study. (30 references)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, French
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