Focus on French as a foreign language [electronic resource] : multidisciplinary approaches / edited by Jean-Marc Dewaele.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Psycholinguistic studies on the acquisition of French as a second language : the 'learner variety' approach / Marzena Watorek and Clive Perdue -- Discourse structuring in advanced L2 French : the relative clause / Victorine Hancock and Nathalie Kirchmeyer -- Adverbs and functional categories in L1 and L2 acquisition of French / Suzanne Schlyter -- The emergence and use of the plus-que-parfait in advanced French interlanguage / Martin Howard -- The emergence of morpho-syntactic structure in French L2 / Florence Myles -- Syntactic and semantic issues in the acquisition of negation in French / Daniel Véronique -- Gender and number in French L2 : can we find out more about the constraints on production in L2? / Mireille Prodeau -- The development of gender attribution and gender agreement in French : a comparison of bilingual first and second language learners / Jonas Granfeldt -- From speech community back to classroom : what variation analysis can tell us about the role of context in the acquisition of French as a foreign language / Vera Regan -- The role of psycholinguistic factors in the development of fluency amongst advanced learners of French / Richard Towell and Jean-Marc Dewaele.

This book offers insights into the acquisition and use of French as a foreign language. The authors are specialists in their particular theoretical paradigms and focus on morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, discourse, as well as fluency in the French interlanguage from beginners to advanced learners with different first languages.

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