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Direct linkEtienne, 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
Peer reviewedDi Pietro, Robert J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1976
Discusses the differences in conversational structures and verbal strategies between languages and cultures and the teaching of such differences. The use of literary texts is advocated. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Differences, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedLyster, 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
