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Peer reviewedSurridge, Marie E.; Lessard, Gregory – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Test results for final-year French students in Canadian universities show they have not mastered the gender of some of the most frequent French nouns. Two recommendations are to continue to seek simplification of the learning of gender and to require students to use the full range of syntactic transformations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French
Peer reviewedSurridge, Marie E. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
In a corpus of the most frequent French words, phonetic rules relating the end of a noun to gender are simplified, and morphological rules governing the gender of suffixed nouns are illustrated. The stratified presentation is offered to teachers for classroom use. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, French, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
