NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Lyster, Roy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Errors in the spoken French of immersion students, reflecting a fossilized interlanguage and language transfer, are attributed to an erroneous assumption underlying immersion instruction: that students acquire the second language in the same way they acquire their native language. An improved syllabus aimed at second-language learners is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Error Patterns, French, Immersion Programs
Klinck, Patricia – 1987
A study of self-correction, or repair (the righting of the trouble source) among bilingual secondary students differed from most repair studies in three ways. It: (1) examined results in the form of description rather than in quantifiable analyses; (2) defined errors as trouble sources (hearable errors, breaks in communication such as word…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Educational Experience, Error Patterns
Dumas, Guy; And Others – 1973
Examples of the spontaneous speech in French of native English speakers, average age 7.6 years, were collected at the end of their second year in a French immersion program. Results show that the native language strongly influences second language speech production. While vocabulary and pronunciation are of course predominantly French, the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English