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Download full textStarets, Moshe – 1997
A study conducted in grades 4 and 5 in French Canadian schools in Atlantic Canada and Ontario investigated differences between students' vernacular and standard spoken French, with regard to learning how to eliminate interference in students' learning of standard usage. The discussion focuses on mistakes caused by borrowings from English,…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, French, Grade 4
Peer reviewedStarets, Moshe – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Presents the results of a study of Francophone pupils in the French schools of Windsor, Ontario. The article gives examples of nonstandard features pervading students' French vocabulary and syntax and concludes that a hybrid vernacular may be emerging as a result of the Canadian sociolinguistic situation, creating a challenge to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Elementary School Students
