French applied linguistics / edited by Dalila Ayoun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ayoun, Dalila, 1963-

Series:

Language learning and language teaching ; 16.

Language learning & language teaching, 1569-9471 ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied linguistics.

French language--Acquisition.

French language.

French language--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This state-of-the-art volume on French Applied Linguistics includes two introductory chapters, the first summarizes the past, present and future of French in applied linguistics, and the second reviews the history of French from a sociolinguistic perspective. The six chapters of the first part cover the core aspects of the second language acquisition of French: phonology, semantics/syntax, syntax/morphology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and grammatical gender. The seven chapters of the second part explore the contribution of French in various subfields of applied linguistics such as language ideology and foreign language pedagogy, corpus linguistics, and French Sign Language. A chapter studies the role of affective variables on language learning, while another investigates natural language and lexical creativity. The chapters on creole studies and applied linguistics in West Africa address issues in first and second language acquisition in complex sociolinguistic and political contexts. The last chapter serves as an epilogue focusing on Louisiana, a region rich in linguistic history.

Contents:

French Applied Linguistics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

About the contributors

Introduction

The past, present and future of French in applied linguistics

1. Introduction

2. Historical overview: A few key figures

2.1. Sign language: Abbé de l'Epée

2.2. Louis Braille

2.3. Paul Pierre Broca (1824-1880) and Henry Hécaen

2.4. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)

2.5. Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960)

2.6. Pioneers in bilingualism research

3. The current state of French in applied Linguistics

3.1. Core second language acquisition

3.2. French in applied linguistics

4. Directions for future research

4.1. Phonological knowledge

4.2. Syntactic-semantic knowledge

4.3. Morpho-syntactic knowledge

4.4. Pragmatic knowledge

4.5. Sociolinguistic knowledge

4.6. Foreign language ideology and language pedagogy

4.7. Affective variables, personality and motivation

4.8. Natural language and lexical creativity

4.9. French Sign Language

4.10. Electronic corpora in SLA research

4.11. Creole studies

4.12. Applied linguistics in West Africa

4.13. Immersion studies in Louisiana

5. Conclusion

The history of French

2. The Latin base

3. Dialectalization of Latin and the beginnings of Gallo-Romance

3.1. Dialectalization

3.2. Periodizing the history of French

4. The selection of vernacular norms

4.1. The development of written norms

4.2. The development of spoken norms

4.3. Linguistic developments

5. Elaboration of functions

5.1. Functional expansion

5.2. Linguistic developments

6. Codification

6.1. Early grammars and dictionaries

6.2. Motivation for codification

6.3. Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century Paris

6.4. The diffusion of French

7. Acceptance.

7.1. Demise of the traditional dialects and languages of France

7.2. Socio-stylistic variation

8. Conclusion

Core aspects of the second language acquisition of French

French phonology and L2 acquisition

2. Phonetics, phonology and acquisition: The background

2.1 Inventories and phonetic characterizations

2.2. Phonology and phonological patterns

2.3. Phonology and acquisition

3. Further directions

Syntax-semantics in English-French interlanguage

2. Research paradigm for investigating the syntax-semantics interface

3. Evidence from the nominal domain

3.1. The result-process distinction in dyadic nominals

3.2. The unique-nonunique noun reference distinction in nouns modified by an adjective (Anderson 2002, to appear a)

3.3. The universal-existential distinction in relative clauses (Dekydtspotter, Sprouse, &amp

Gibson 2001)

4. Evidence from the clausal domain

4.1. Quantification at a distance: Beaucoup de NP (Dekydtspotter, Sprouse, &amp

Thyre 1999/2000)

4.2. Discontinuous cardinality interrogatives: Combien de NP (Dekydtspotter, Sprouse, &amp

Swanson 2001)

4.3. Adjectival restrictions on quantifiers: Qui de ADJ (Dekydtspotter &amp

Sprouse 2001)

4.4. Adjectival restrictions on quantifiers and implicatures (Dekydtspotter &amp

Hathorn 2005)

5. Broader implications for L2 research

6. Directions for future research

L2 functional categories

2. Functional categories and parametric variation

2.1. Overview of parametric variation in French and English

2.2. Minimalism and concord

2.3. French and English DP, concord

3. Current second language acquisition theory

3.1. The Failed Functional Features Hypothesis

3.2. Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis

3.3. Theoretical and empirical evidence from L2 DP.

4. Current study: TP and DP in L2 French

4.1. Subject and data collection

4.2. Discussion

6. Directions for future research in morpho-syntax

Appendix

Errors of TP

The second language acquisition of grammatical gender and agreement

1. French grammatical gender

1.1. Lexical gender and grammatical gender

1.2. How is grammatical gender assigned in the lexicon?

1.3. Idiosyncrasies and exceptions

1.4. Agreement and gender resolution

1.5. Anaphora

1.6. Masculine as the default gender

2. Theoretical background: Grammatical gender and minimalism

3. Learnability implications for L2 adults

3.1. General theoretical considerations

3.2. Learnability considerations for L2 French learners

4. Literature review

5. Methodology

5.1. Participants and elicitation tasks

5.2. Results of the grammaticality judgment/correction task

5.3. Results of the production task

6. Discussion and conclusion

6.1. Summary and discussion

6.2. Effect of formal instruction

6.3. Directions for future research

Appendix A: Empirical studies in chronological order

Appendix B: Participants' background information

Appendix C: Production task

Appendix D: GJT results by stimuli

Interlanguage pragmatics in L2 French

2. Defining pragmatics

3. Interlanguage pragmatics

3.1. Definition

3.2. Scope

4. Theoretical positions

4.1. Acculturation model

4.2. Cognitive processing

4.3. Socio-cultural theory

4.4. Language socialization

5. Research methods

6. Differences between native speakers and learners

7. Acquisitional pragmatics

7.1. Pragmatic transfer

7.2. Developmental path

7.3. Instruction

8. Empirical focus on French

8.1. Literature review

8.2. Development of requesting behavior in L2 French.

9. Directions for further research

Diachronic and/or synchronic variation?

2. Empirical studies

2.1. Studies on phonological variants

2.2. Studies on morphosyntactic variants

2.3. Studies on syntactic variants

2.4. Studies on lexical variants

3. Discussion

4. Conclusion

French in applied linguistics

Language ideology and foreign language pedagogy

1. Language ideology and problem framing in foreign language pedagogy and applied linguistics

2. (Standard) French and beyond: Ideology and reflexivity

3. Standardization and Native Standard Language

4. Hyperstandardization and Pedagogic Hyperstandard

5. Visions of unity, acts of exclusion: A critical sociohistorical perspective on the ideology of variation-as-problem

6. The chimera of universality: Ideologies of correctness, communication, and competence

7. Imagining communities of French: Monolingual ideologies of national space

8. Inventing languages: Linguistic and textual ideologies

9. The Native Speaker question: Questioning the ideology of monolingual nativism

10. Directions for future research: Toward a critically responsive French language pedagogy

10.1. Beyond (non)native and national identities of French

10.2. From nativist competence to intercultural performativity

10.3. Teaching and learning French in the age of globalization

10.4. Language ideology and ethics: Language testing and standards-based education

11. Conclusion

Affective variables, attitude and personality in context

2. Second language motivation and its impact

2.1. Intergroup relations and motivation

2.2. Self-determination and motivation in L2 acquisition

3. Self-confidence and anxiety

3.1. Academic effects

3.2. Social effects

4. Contextual effects in L2 acquisition.

4.1. The pedagogical context

4.2. The social context

4.3. Identity processes

5. What factors lead to a willingness or unwillingness to communicate?

6. Personality

7. Original empirical data: Extraversion and studying French vocabulary

7.1. Methodology

7.2. Results

7.3. Discussion of the results

Lexical creativity in L2 French and natural language generation

2. Word formation in French: Some basic distinctions

2.1. Degrees of motivation

3. Word formation in the context of L2 lexical learning

4. Corpus data on L1 and L2 French word formation

5. Pedagogical approaches to word formation in L2 French

6. Use of word formation in authentic documents

7. A cognitive approach to word formation

8. Computational approaches to the teaching and learning of L2 word formation

9. Some illustrations of generation-based word-formation teaching and testing

9.1. First example: Presentation and testing of derivational patterns

9.2. Second example: Playful use of word formation devices

9.3. Third example: Word formation in human-computer dialogues

9.4. Combining word formation teaching approaches

10. Conclusions and future paths

Appendix A: English glosses for extended French examples

Appendix B: A fuller description of the VINCI environment

Example

Growing up bilingual in French and French Sign Language*

1.1. French Sign Language

1.2. French and French Sign Language

2. The boundaries of LSF

2.1. A history shared with ASL history

2.2. LSF and the French-speaking world

3. Sign Language development

3.1. Early language milestones

3.2. Development of phonology

3.3. Lexical development

3.4. Acquisition of morpho-syntax

3.5. Narrative development

4. Bimodal bilingual language development.

4.1. Hearing children acquiring French and LSF.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155000

9781282155008

1282155008

9789027292889

9027292884

OCLC:

191936381