The Impact of Attending to Unstressed Words on the Acquisition of Written Grammatical Morphology by French-Speaking ESL Students.

Morris, Lori; Tremblay, Michel

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ERIC Number: EJ645263

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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The Impact of Attending to Unstressed Words on the Acquisition of Written Grammatical Morphology by French-Speaking ESL Students.

Morris, Lori; Tremblay, Michel

Canadian Modern Language Review, v58 n3 p364-85 Mar 2002

Reports findings of a classroom experiment involving French-speaking English-as-a-Second-Language learners. An experimental group did weekly cloze dictation activities designed to focus their attention on unstressed grammatical words. Learners' accuracy in verbal and nominal morphology on the pre- and post-tests revealed the experimental group improved far more than the control group. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Higher Education, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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