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Ziyan, Xu – English Language Teaching, 2013
Based on Sloin's (1996b) thinking for speaking approach, the study examines L1 influence on the use of English deictic Motion verbs for Chinese EFL learners and French EFL learners. The aim is to find out whether language learners will be influenced by the particular Thinking for Speaking acquired in L1 in the process of L2 acquisition. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ziyan, Xu – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study adopts Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) theory of linguistic typology and Slobin's (2003, 2004) hypothesis of Thinking-for-Speaking to investigate the use of additional expressions of Manner in the expression of Motion events by Chinese EFL learners in comparison with French EFL learners. The aim is to find out the Thinking-for-Speaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Goulet, Marie-Josee, Ed. – 2001
Papers on language research in this volume include the following: "Temporalite en francais de France. Differences dans la conceptualisation du temps et son expression dans un texte narratif oral" ("Differences in the Conceptualization of Time and Its Expression in Oral Narratives") (Natalia Dankova); "La traduction des…
Descriptors: Chinese, Dictionaries, Esperanto, Foreign Countries