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Thieme, Katja – Written Communication, 2010
This article offers a way of using the theory of audience design--how speakers position different audience groups as main addressees, overhearers, or bystanders--for written discourse. It focuses on main addressees, that is, those audience members who are expected to participate in and respond to a speaker's utterances. The text samples are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Audience Analysis, Rhetoric
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Surridge, Marie E.; Lessard, Gregory – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Test results for final-year French students in Canadian universities show they have not mastered the gender of some of the most frequent French nouns. Two recommendations are to continue to seek simplification of the learning of gender and to require students to use the full range of syntactic transformations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French