The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students

Author:   Raymond Mougeon ,  Terry Nadasdi ,  Katherine Rehner
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Volume:   No. 47
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9781847692399


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 January 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Raymond Mougeon ,  Terry Nadasdi ,  Katherine Rehner
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Volume:   No. 47
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.496kg
ISBN:  

9781847692399


ISBN 10:   1847692397
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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CH. 1 INTRODUCTION CH. 2 METHODOLOGY CH. 3 FINDINGS OF L1 STUDIES CH. 4 RESULTS CH. 5 THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF INCREASED FL1 INPUT IN AN EDUCTIONAL CONTEXT CH. 6 CONCLUSION Appendix A: Semi-directed taped interview schedule-including reading passages Appendix B: Student questionnaire survey Appendix C: Objectives of the Ontario Ministry of Education concerning the development of sociolinguistic competence by secondary school French immersion students Appendix D: Results of the GoldVarb analyses of the sociolinguistic variables focused upon in the current research

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In previous studies, the team of Mougeon, Nadasdi, and Rehner has contributed greatly to our understanding of variation in second language learners' speech. The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students sets a new standard for researchers in the sociolinguistics of L2 speech and represents a major contribution to both second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Robert Bayley, University of California, Davis, USA Here's a very informative book in which variationist sociolinguistics is made relevant to second language teaching! Assuming correctly that native linguistic competence includes knowledge of how forms and structures vary under specific structural and pragmatic conditions, Mougeon, Nadasdi, and Rhener offer teachers of (Canadian) French as a second language (FL2) a book that they will find very useful. Covering a wide range of linguistic variables with the relevant patterns and rates of variation, it exhorts FL2 teachers to aim at producing speakers not of bookish French but of real, natural, non-monolithic French, i.e., speakers that are aware of both the structural and social principles that govern variable linguistic communication. This is a book that will also be invaluable to students of French variationist sociolinguistics, as it synthesizes years of fieldwork and insightful analyses from a long litany of scholars who have applied the Labovianist paradigm to Canadian French. The book is richly documented about French immersion students in Canada, including dozens of figures and tables that summarize the authors' findings. Salikoko S. Mufwene, The Franck J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago.


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Raymond Mougeon received a PhD in linguistics from McGill University. He received numerous research grants from CanadaaEURO(t)s Social Science and Humanities Research Council and the Ontario Ministry of Education. He has written extensively on topics such as the diachrony of variation in European French, variation in the spoken French of Franco-Ontarian students and immersion students and aspects of the ethno-linguistic vitality of OntarioaEURO(t)s francophone community. He is current director of the Centre for Research on Language Contact on the Glendon campus of York University. Terry Nadasdi obtained a PhD in French linguistics from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on grammatical variation in French-English language contact situations, e.g.: minority language speakers and learners of French as a second language. His research also involves the creation of online grammar checkers for English and French (e.g.: www.bonpatron.com). He is currently a Full Professor in the University of AlbertaaEURO(t)s Linguistics Department. Katherine Rehner received a PhD in Second Language Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her research and publications centre on the development of sociolinguistic competence by first and second language speakers of French and on the role of educational input in the development of such competence. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics and the Teaching and Learning programs in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.

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