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Peer reviewedLaVergne, Marcel – Foreign Language Annals, 1977
Sentences in a high school French I textbook were examined to determine the extent to which the writers controlled French syntactic surface structures in terms of their differences with English equivalents. Results show students were exposed to L1-L2 syntactic differences without explanation, and such sentences could cause future difficulties.…
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Sentence Structure
