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L2 Learners' Interpretation and Understanding of Written Corrective Feedback: Insights from Their Metalinguistic Reflections
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Simard, Daphnée; Guénette, Danièle; Bergeron, Annie – Language Awareness, 2015
The impact written corrective feedback (WCF) has on second language development is still a subject of much debate. While some believe it leads to improvement, others are more sceptical. But in order for WCF to lead to second language improvement, learners must first be able to not only correctly interpret the WCF but also understand the linguistic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Understanding and Improving the Use of Writing Portfolios in One French Immersion Classroom
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Armstrong, Christine L. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2011
This study investigates the use of writing portfolios in improving the accuracy of French immersion students' written French. It emerged from regularly observed notable and repeated errors in many of the author's students' writing (entitled fossilized errors due their resistance to correction). This study reaffirms that students of French…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), French, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction
Spielfilme im Franzoesischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II. (Film Dramas in French Teaching in the Upper Grades).
Heinrichs, Volkhard – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1978
Offers teaching plans for the use of dramatic films in teaching French in Grades 11, 12, and 13, and discusses their significance for the leisure-time activities of adolescents. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Films, Foreign Language Films, French, Grade 11
Didaktische und methodische Probleme im Unterricht des Franzoesischen als spaeteinsetzender Fremdsprache (Didactic and Methodological Problems in Teaching Beginning French at the Upper School Level)
Bonneau, Elisabeth – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1977
Discusses the problems in teaching beginning French to upper-level school pupils, the particular psychology of upper-level pupils (Grades 11, 12, 13) and the need to find motivating measures. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Grade 11, Grade 12, High School Students
Materialien und Modelle fuer den Franzoesischunterricht in der Sekundarstufe Zwei (Materials and Models for Teaching French in Grades 11-13)
Frei, Alfons – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1978
Texts available for French courses in the highest grades are listed according to topics, which include: position of women, today's youth, the language of advertising, French colonialism, holidays and tourism, modern city living, criminality, French politics. Hints for the teacher are included. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Grade 11, Grade 12, Language Instruction
Analytic and Experimental Dimensions in Core French Classrooms.
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Allen, Patrick; Carroll, Susanne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
The Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT), a recently-developed observational scheme, is used to describe instructional practices in eight grade 11 core French classes. Classroom events and activities are discussed, and communicative features of verbal exchanges between teachers and students (or among students) as they occur within…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)