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Effectiveness of Focus-on-Forms Instruction: Different Outcomes on Constrained- and Free-Production Tasks?
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Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2005
The purpose of this study is to investigate how focus-on-forms instruction in second language teaching affects attention to forms in two different types of task: constrained and free production. These two different types of task were administered to 87 university students enrolled in a first-year French as a second language course before and after…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Teaching Methods
Resumes de texte en langue maternelle et en langue seconde: Differences dans l'application des macroregles entre experts et etudiants de differents niveaux universitaires (Test Summaries in the Mother Tongue and in a Second Language: Differences in the Application of Macrorules between Experts and University Students of Various Levels).
Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2001
Analyzes differences between experts and university students of various academic levels in the application of the macrorules of deletion, generalization, and construction of text summaries. Learners of French as a second language wrote summaries of a French text in French as well as in English, their mother tongue, while professors of French and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, English, Foreign Countries
Exploring the Effects of First- and Second-Language Proficiency on Summarizing in French as a Second Language.
Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2000
Reports on a study that found that both first-language summarizing skills and second language proficiency affect second language summarizing skills, with the exception of inclusion of main ideas and amount of distortion that are more affected by first language summarizing skills. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: French, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning