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Peer reviewedAlderson, J. Charles; Clapham, Caroline; Steel, David. – Language Teaching Research, 1997
Reports on an ESRC-funded study of the levels of knowledge about language of first-year undergraduate student learners of French and the relationship between this metalinguistic knowledge and language proficiency and aptitude. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, French, Higher Education, Language Aptitude
Download full textSteel, David; Alderson, J. Charles – 1994
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the psycholinguistic abilities of first-year undergraduate student learners of French. In particular, it reports on the construction and use of a battery of tests of metalinguistic knowledge, language aptitude, grammatical accuracy in French, and French linguistic proficiency, and explores the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, French
