Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion: An Experimental Study.

Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M.

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ERIC Number: EJ421535

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Publication Date: 1991

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Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion: An Experimental Study.

Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M.

Language Learning, v41 n1 p25-58 Mar 1991

An experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect on French language proficiency of an integrated, formal, analytic and functional, communicative approach to second-language teaching in French immersion. The study consisted of 315 grade 7 early French immersion students. (28 references) (VWL)

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Grade 7, Immersion Programs, Language Research, Language Teachers, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, Statistical Analysis, Teaching Methods, Testing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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