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Le Francais de la Saskatchewan: Etude de lexique (The French of Saskatchewan: Lexical Study).
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Senior, Nancy; Longpre, Bernadette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
A linguistic survey indicates that despite variations by region and social group, the French spoken by Saskatchewan francophones preserves traces of the history of the language, including anglicisms and older French expressions not much in use today. (MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Foreign Countries, French
La destination: Etude contrastive du "mouvement" en francais et en anglais (Destination: a Contrastive Analysis of "Motion" in French and English).
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Quillard, Genevieve – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents a method, based on a contrastive analysis, for teaching English-speaking students of French how to express concepts of motion in the target language. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, French, Grammar
Etude comparee de trois approches a la correction des erreurs dans les compositions ecrites (A Comparative Study of Three Approaches to the Correction of Errors in Written Compositions).
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Guberman, Solange – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
An experiment compared three approaches to error correction in college-level written composition and found that the ideal approach would be to combine, in a simple and realistic formula, the best features of the three models. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, French, Higher Education
Motivations d'etude d'une langue etrangere a l'universite: Enquete sur le francais dans l'enseignement sur le francais dans l'enseignement superieur israelien (Reasons for Studying a Foreign Language at the University: Investigation of Advanced French Instruction in Israel).
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Levy, Francine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Presents a case study of the study of French at the University of Tel Aviv as an illustration of the cultural attitude toward foreign language learning. Knowledge of a foreign language elevates the student socially as the possessor of symbolic capital, establishing social differentiation between the possessors of that capital and others. (28…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Foreign Countries, French