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Native Speaker Reactions to Errors Made by French Immersion Students.
Adiv, Ellen – 1982
In a study of the relative importance native speakers of French attach to different types of errors produced by second language learners, 231 native French speakers listened to 50 pairs of deviant sentences to determine which sentence in each pair contained a more serious error. The sentences contained 20 different types of errors grouped into…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French
A Comparative Evaluation of Three French Immersion Programs: Grades 10 and 11.
Adiv, Ellen – 1980
A study was conducted to assess the French language proficiency of grade 10 and grade 11 students from three different French immersion programs: early, grade 7, and grade 7/8 immersion. English and French control groups were included in the study. The results indicate that: (1) the three immersion groups scored significantly higher than the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, French
Some Observations on the Nature of Language Transfer in the Simultaneous Acquisition of Two Second Languages.
Adiv, Ellen – 1981
This study examines the occurrence of transfer in the simultaneous acquisition of French and Hebrew by 57 native English-speaking children in a primary grades French/Hebrew immersion program in Montreal. The study focuses on three issues: (1) whether transfer of genetically related first and second languages differs quantitatively and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), French, Hebrew
Starting French in Kindergarten: The Effects of Program, Mother Tongue and Other Linguistic Experience on Second Language Development.
Adiv, Ellen – 1980
A study was carried out to assess the French language proficiency of kindergarten students enrolled in a French early immersion program and two "classes d'accueil," that is, a special program for non-French speaking immigrant children. The particular focus of the study was to investigate whether the level of proficiency in French is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Testing, French
A Comparison of Early Immersion and Classes d'Accueil Programs at the Kindergarten Level.
Adiv, Ellen – 1979
A study was carried out to assess the French language proficiency of students enrolled in two different programs at the kindergarten level in Montreal: an early immersion program and a "class d'accueil" program. Three groups of students were tested: (1) an early immersion class; (2) a "classe d'accueil," or class for immigrant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, FLES, French
An Analysis of Second Language Performance in an Early French Immersion Program: Grades 3, 4 and 5.
Adiv, Ellen – 1980
Research was conducted to investigate the development of linguistic competence in early French immersion programs. Fifty-five students in grades 3, 4, and 5 were administered a test of oral production in French. Twenty-seven grammatical features were examined by means of a detailed error analysis. The results show that there was little improvement…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)