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Perdue, Clive, Ed. – 1984
The field manual for a series of coordinated studies of the spontaneous acquisition of a second language by adult immigrant workers provides a theoretical and practical framework for the entire project and a source of information about it for other researchers. Chapters 1 and 2 describe the project's objectives and organization. Chapter 3 reviews…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comprehension, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
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Trevise, Anne; Porquier, Remy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Illustrates some of the problems of second language (French) acquisition by adult Spanish-speaking immigrants in a natural setting through analysis of the European Project data (Perdue, 1982) in three areas: acquisition and use of the over-generalized marker "c'est"; acquisition of reference to time; and acquisition of reference to…
Descriptors: Adults, Distance, Foreign Countries, French
Py, Bernard, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (TRANEL), 1993
The conference papers from a colloquium on issues in bilingualism and biculturalism include: "Le bilinguisme et biculturalisme: essai de definition" ("Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Attempt at Definition") (Francois Grosjean); "La variation individuelle dans l'acquisition d'une langue seconde" ("Individual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, Child Language