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Teaching, Learning, and Developing L2 French Sociolinguistic Competence: A Sociocultural Perspective
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Applied Linguistics, 2012
The study reported in this article investigates the development of sociolinguistic competence among second-year (US university-level) L2 learners of French who were given systematic instruction on sociolinguistic variation as part of their normal coursework. We focus on the variable use of the negative morpheme "ne" in verbal negation. Drawing…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Sociolinguistics, Morphemes, French
Promoting Sociolinguistic Competence in the Classroom Zone of Proximal Development
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This article explores the microgenetic development of learners' understanding of sociolinguistic variation in French during an instructional conversation (IC) that followed a language analysis task in which learners attempted to formulate hypotheses about the nature of language variation. During the IC, the instructor led students toward a…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Sociolinguistics, French, Teaching Methods
Thinking with Your Hands: Speech-Gesture Activity during an L2 Awareness-Raising Task
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Language Awareness, 2011
This article reports on a study of second language (L2) French learners' self-generated use of gesture to think through and resolve a metalinguistic awareness-raising task during small-group work with an expert mediator. Although the use of gesture in L2 communication and pedagogy has recently received increasing attention, little research has…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Metalinguistics, French, Nonverbal Communication
Reconceptualizing Sociolinguistic Competence as Mediated Action: Identity, Meaning-Making, Agency
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Van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This article presents 2 case studies of intermediate university students of French, Casey and Melanie (both pseudonyms), and their developing use and understanding of stylistic variation over the course of an academic semester. It draws from a variety of data sources: classroom observation, learners' explanations of stylistic variants, learners'…
Descriptors: Assignments, Observation, Second Language Learning, Language Role
Learner versus Nonlearner Patterns of Stylistic Variation in Synchronous Computer Mediated French: Yes/No "Questions" and Nous versus On
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This study analyzes stylistic variation among first-, second-, and third-year instructed learners of French engaged in synchronous French-language computer-mediated communication (CMC) and compares the results with data from nonlearner discourse in a public, noneducational synchronous CMC environment. We focus specifically on variability in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Norms, Correlation
Variable Omission of "ne" in Real-Time French Chat: A Corpus-Driven Comparison of Educational and Non-Educational Contexts
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article reports on the variable omission of the French negative particle "ne" (the first marker of verbal negation) in synchronous (i.e., real-time) electronic communication environments. Patterns of variation in a corpus of non-educational chat (i.e., free, public-access Internet chat) are analyzed and compared to data produced by first-,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, French, Computational Linguistics, Synchronous Communication