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The attrition of French as a foreign language /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weltens, B. (Bert)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Colección:Studies on language acquisition ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1. THE PHENOMENON OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE ATTRITION; 1.1. The nature of attrition: What is lost and why?; 1.2. The rate of attrition over time; 1.3. Remedying language attrition: Relearning; 1.4. Theories of forgetting; 2. THE RESEARCH PLAN; 2.1. The aim of the investigation; 2.2. The target language: French; 2.3. The design of the investigation; 2.4. The skills and linguistic levels tested; 2.5. The instruments; 2.6. The subjects; 2.7. Procedure; 3. RESULTS; 3.1. The subject sample; 3.2. The multiple-choice cloze test; 3.3. The listening comprehension test.
  • 3.4. The reading comprehension test3.5. The phonological subtests; 3.6. The lexical subtests; 3.7. The morpho-syntactic subtests; 3.8. The questionnaire: Self-report data; 3.9. The relation between test scores; 3.10. The relation between test scores and self-reports; 3.11. Choosers and non-choosers in SEC-4; 3.12. The role of attitudes, motivation and use; 4. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION; 4.1. Methodology; 4.2. The rate of attrition; 4.3. The nature of attrition; 4.4. Directions for future research; REFERENCES; LIST OF APPENDICES; SUMMARY.