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Developing Second Language Learners’ Sociolinguistic Competence: How Teachers’ CEFR-Related Professional Learning Aligns with Learner-Identified Needs

Education Sciences, 2023
This article explores how teachers’ professional learning about the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) can re-orient their reported teaching practices to meet learner-identified sociolinguistic needs.
Katherine Rehner, Ivan Lasan
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Applied Sociolinguistics: The Case of Arabic as a Second Language [PDF]

, 1986
This paper has several themes. The first is that almost everything that sociolinguists can discover about the sociolinguistic patterning of Arabic will have some relevance for the teaching and learning of Arabic as a second language.
Schmidt, Richard W.
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A study of the roles of Tahitian, French, and English in the educational system of French Polynesia [PDF]

, 1982
This thesis reveals, through an intensive study of the educational system of French Polynesia, how the different languages which are used there are taught, the role they play in the educational system, and the effect they may have on the lives of the ...
Le Caill, Moea
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A Study of Language Socialization: Learning and Making Sense in a Second Language Classroom [PDF]

, 1997
This paper is about children's second language socialization. It is about how a child, a Japanese eight year old boy, tries to make sense of his world in a second language classroom.
Jasso-Aguilar, Rebeca
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Diversity is Only Skin-Deep: Intercultural Inclusion in Ontario FSL Classrooms

Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada
Despite growing demographic diversity among French-speaking newcomers to Canada, as well as recent curricular changes at the provincial level, many French as a Second Language (FSL) classrooms in Ontario remain grounded in Eurocentric norms.
Rosanne Abdulla
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“Do I Have to Sign My Real Name?” Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Multilingual Research with Adult SLIFE Learning French as a Second Language

Languages, 2022
In 2017, Quebec’s Auditor General reported several major issues regarding government-funded French as a second language (FSL) courses, especially those intended for adult students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).
Alexandra H. Michaud, Véronique Fortier, Valérie Amireault   +2 more
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Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Fluency [PDF]

, 1991
Fluency in a second language is considered important by both learners and teachers, but is not well understood. This paper describes what is known about second language fluency and describes a number of psychological learning mechanisms that might ...
Schmidt, Richard
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Playing with Possibilities: Drama and Core French in the Montessori Elementary Classroom in British Columbia, Canada

SCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2019
French as a Second Language (FSL) is not often a popular subject among Canadian elementary and high school students. Negative attitudes and low motivation for learning French contribute to attrition at the high school level.
Göksel, Eva
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The Impact of CEFR-Related Professional Learning on Second-Language Teachers’ Classroom Practice: The Case of French in Canada

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study explores the impact of professional learning about the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) on second language (L2) teachers’ classroom practice.
Katherine Rehner, Ivan Lasan, Anne Popovich, Zehra Palta   +3 more
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Preference and Order in First and Second Language Referential Strategies [PDF]

, 1991
Kellerman, Ammerlaan, Bongaerts, and Poulisse (1986) examined referential strategies used by Dutch speakers of English as a second language in a shapedescription task. Kellerman, et al.
Russell, George
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