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Etienne, Corinne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article explores French L1 speakers' attitudes toward French L2 speakers' negation use. Negation in prescriptive grammars calls for a pre-verbal ne and a post-verbal element like "pas." Although orally "ne" deletion is frequent, it is rarely or never taught. One common, albeit meagerly supported, explanation is that L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dalola, Amanda; Bullock, Barbara E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
The data from this study investigate phrase-final vowel devoicing in Metropolitan French among L1 and L2 speakers, in terms of number of times a speaker devoices a phrase-final high vowel and percentage of the vowel that is devoiced. The goal is to assess whether experienced L2 speakers use style-based variation in response to the same factors as…
Descriptors: French, Vowels, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Dubeda, Tomáš; Obdržálková, Vanda – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
We examine the stylistic aspects of L2 translations using a set of quantifiable descriptors. The sample includes 40 translations of a promotional text from Czech into English and French produced by novices and professional translators. The general stylistic competence is slightly higher in the group of professionals, although the overall quality…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Styles, Language Processing, Second Languages
Tadoum, Jean Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation focuses on the works of two well-known African Francophone novelists, Ahmadou Kourouma from the Ivory Coast and Mongo Beti from Cameroon. The objective of this study is to look at the influences of African oral traditions and analyze the literary transposition of semantic structures from African languages and cultures into the…
Descriptors: Semantics, African Languages, Foreign Countries, French
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This study analyzes stylistic variation among first-, second-, and third-year instructed learners of French engaged in synchronous French-language computer-mediated communication (CMC) and compares the results with data from nonlearner discourse in a public, noneducational synchronous CMC environment. We focus specifically on variability in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Norms, Correlation
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Mougeon, Francoise; Rehner, Katherine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This study examines factors correlated with the use of "nous" and "on" by university students formerly enrolled in French immersion programs. Their variant frequency and stylistic appropriateness are compared to those of (1) former core French university students; (2) French as a second language (FSL) speakers in a francophone environment; and (3)…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, French, Native Speakers, Correlation
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Renaud, Gaston R. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1986
Reviews the variety of language styles with which the translator deals and discusses the esthetic and practical advantages of adapting the language of a text to the sociocultural and communicative habits of a specific linguistic group. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, French, Language Styles
Brunet, Jean-Paul – Meta, 1981
Discusses the meaning and origins of the word "argot," its cryptic character, and its function in a closed social group, focusing on a comparative description of the French and Anglo-American vocabulary of the underworld and the police. Comments on shared traits and provides an insight into the differences. (MES)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criminals, English, French
Lebre-Peytard, Monique – Francais dans le Monde, 1986
The descriptions of a terrorist attack on a Paris restaurant--an audio recording of a juvenile eyewitness, an audio recording of a researcher reading a text about the event, and a newspaper account--are compared for discourse characteristics. (MSE)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis
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Fagan, William T.; Hayden, Helen Mary – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
A study of the writing processes of ten fifth-grade French immersion students examined 22 features of their writing in both English and French. Differences across languages occurred in eight features, and students displayed a wide range of writing process behaviors in both languages. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Allouche, Victor – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
An approach to writing instruction in a second language begins with a look at the different functions of oral and written language and proceeds to an analysis of stylistic differences. A number of examples are offered from French textbooks, letters, and excerpts from speech used on television. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Language Role, Language Styles
Ulijn, Jan M.; Strother, Judith B. – ESP Journal, 1987
Forty-eight American (L1) and 48 Dutch students (L2), half of whom had computer science backgrounds and half of whom did not, were tested for their use of either scientific text (ST) syntactic structures or the less difficult common syntax when writing technical discourse (in Appendix). Results indicate that both L1 and L2 technical writers wrote…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Dutch, English (Second Language)
Martinez-Dauden, Gemma; Llisterri, Joaquim – 1990
A study examined the production of lateral consonants in seven male university students bilingual in Spanish and Catalan who had studied French in elementary and secondary school. A questionnaire elicited information about the subjects' use of each language with parents, with friends, at home, and in school. Each subject then read a 775-word text…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Snow, Catherine E.; And Others – 1987
Formal definitions are one example of "decontextualized" language use, in which reliance on background knowledge shared with the interlocutor is minimized, and use of conversational devices is avoided. Definitions of English nouns by 137 second- to fifth-grade children, about half of whom were non-native English speakers, were analyzed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Child Language, Children