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Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study tested the effects of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words on the pronunciation of these words by 7- to 8-year-old Catalan children. In a short training experiment with a pre- and posttest design, 28 children either repeated cognate words in French (e.g. French "aspirateur," Catalan "aspirador"…
Descriptors: French, Language Rhythm, Motor Reactions, Pronunciation
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Audrey Rousse-Malpat; Lise Koote; Rasmus Steinkrauss; Marjolijn Verspoor – Language Teaching Research, 2024
We investigated the effectiveness of two different teaching methods based on two different theoretical views of how languages are learned in oral proficiency after three years of L2 French instruction. The first method is commonly used in the Netherlands and is in line with structure-based (SB) principles, viewing language as a set of grammar…
Descriptors: French, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lefkowitz, Natalie; Hedgcock, John – Language Teaching Research, 2002
Examines how adult, monolingual foreign language learners' oral performance is affected by the degree to which they associate prestige with classmates and teacher disapproval. Explores relationships among learners' views of their own and their peers' pronunciation skills; values associated with native-like speech; beliefs about social conditions…
Descriptors: Adults, French, Monolingualism, Oral Language