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Representations of Language Learning in the Talk of Asylum Seekers in France
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Vanessa Piccoli – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter, I present an interactional and multimodal analysis of video-recorded mental health consultations with asylum seekers in France. My main focus is on sequences in which the patients talk with the therapist about their learning of French, in some cases through the mediation of a professional interpreter. The particular context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
On the Fractal Nature of Complex Syntax and the Timescale Problem
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Evans, D. Reid – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Fundamental to complex dynamic systems theory is the assumption that the recursive behavior of complex systems results in the generation of physical forms and dynamic processes that are self-similar and scale-invariant. Such fractal-like structures and the organismic benefit that they engender has been widely noted in physiology, biology, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Etude experimentale de quelques strategies d'apprentissage d'une langue etrangere par des adultes (Experimental Study of Some Learning Strategies in Adult Second Language Learning)
Py, Bernard – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1976
The intermediate competence of adult second language learners is qualitatively different from native speaker competence. Learning strategies are constants in the diachronic modifications of learner competence. A study of the acquisition of interrogatives in French reveals limited strategies and the heterogeneity of linguistic models needed to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Applied Linguistics, French, Language Instruction
Markedness, Operator Movement, and Discourse Effects in the Acquisition of Purpose Clause Constructions in a Second Language.
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Finney, Malcolm A. – Second Language Research, 1997
A study investigated late emergence, in learners of English as a Second Language, of the ability to interpret object gaps in purpose clauses (PCs). Subjects were 34 adult native speakers of French. Results indicate difficulty interpreting only PCs with prepositional object gaps, supporting the hypothesis that syntactically marked construction may…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
How to See What to Say in French.
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Cox, Thomas J. – French Review, 1994
The difficulty with which native English-speaking adults learning French control the distinction between verb aspects has prompted study of the neurological processes that may affect this learning process. It is concluded that it may not be possible to change these basic perception patterns of adult learners. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Learning Behaviors of Successful Adult Students on Intensive Language Training.
Wesche, Marjorie B. – 1977
The study described here sought to identify and define "learning behaviors" characteristic of those adult students who were highly successful in acquiring listening and speaking fluency in French in an intensive language training program. Data were collected from behavioral observation of students in the classroom, in-depth interviews with them,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Class Activities, French