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.
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Preface
1 Marzena Watorek and Clive Perdue: Psycholinguistic Studies on the Acquisition of French as a Second Language: The ‘Learner Variety’ Approach
2 Victorine Hancock and Nathalie Kirchmeyer: Discourse Structuring in Advanced L2 French: The Relative Clause
3 Suzanne Schlyter: Adverbs and Functional Categories in L1 and L2 Acquisition of French
4 Martin Howard: The Emergence and Use of the Plus-Que-Parfait in Advanced French Interlanguage
5 Florence Myles: The Emergence of Morpho-syntactic Structure in French L2
6 Daniel Véronique: Syntactic and Semantic Issues in the Acquisition of Negation in French
7 Mireille Prodeau: Gender and Number in French L2: Can We Find Out More About the Constraints on Production in L2?
8 Jonas Granfeldt: The Development of Gender Attribution and Gender Agreement in French: A Comparison of Bilingual First and Second Language Learners
9 Vera Regan: 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
10 Richard Towell and Jean-Marc Dewaele: The Role of Psycholinguistic Factors in the Development of Fluency Amongst Advanced Learners of French
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Sobre o autor
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birkbeck, University of London¸ UK. He has been working in the field for close to 30 years and has published extensively on multilingualism and emotion. He is General Editor of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.