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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783459403321

Titolo

Focus on French as a foreign language : multidisciplinary approaches / / edited by Jean-Marc Dewaele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon ; ; Buffalo : , : Multilingual Matters, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-78892-032-5

1-280-82845-5

9786610828456

9781853597682

1-85359-768-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Second language acquisition

Altri autori (Persone)

DewaeleJean-Marc <1962->

Disciplina

440/.71

Soggetti

French language - Acquisition

Interlanguage (Language learning)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Psycholinguistic Studies on the Acquisition of French as a Second Language: The ‘Learner Variety’ Approach -- Chapter 2. Discourse Structuring in Advanced L2 French: The Relative Clause -- Chapter 3. Adverbs and Functional Categories in L1 and L2 Acquisition of French -- Chapter 4. The Emergence and Use of the Plus- Que-Parfait in Advanced French Interlanguage -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of Morpho-syntactic Structure in French L2 -- Chapter 6. Syntactic and Semantic Issues in the Acquisition of Negation in French -- Chapter 7. Gender and Number in French L2: Can We Find Out More About the Constraints on Production in L2? -- Chapter 8. The Development of Gender Attribution and Gender Agreement in French: A Comparison of Bilingual First and Second Language Learners -- Chapter 9. From Speech Community Back to Classroom: What Variation Analysis Can Tell Us About the Role of Context in the Acquisition of French as a Foreign Language -- Chapter 10. The Role of Psycholinguistic Factors in the Development of Fluency Amongst Advanced Learners of French -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book offers sharp new insights into the acquisition and use of French as a foreign language.  The authors are specialists in their particular theoretical paradigms and focus on morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, discourse, as well as fluency in the French interlanguage from beginners to advanced learners with different first languages.