Focus on French as a Foreign Language : : Multidisciplinary Approaches / / Jean-Marc Dewaele.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dewaele, Jean-Marc,
• MitwirkendeR: Dewaele, Jean-Marc,; Granfeldt, Jonas,; Hancock, Victorine,; Howard, Martin,; Kirchmeyer, Nathalie,; Myles, Florence,; Perdue, Clive,; Prodeau, Mireille,; Regan, Vera,; Schlyter, Suzanne,; Towell, Richard,; Véronique, Daniel,; Watorek, Marzena,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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