The Role of Society in the Acquisition and Maintenance of French by Franco-Ontarian Students
Year:
1978
Authors and Collaborators :
Volume and number:
, 34
Collection:
, 3
Journal:
, The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes
Pages :
, 381-394
Abstract
A 1976 study showed that Ontario francophone students in the twelfth & thirteenth years of Fr-lang schools made numerous mistakes in Fr, including transfer of morphosyntactic features of familiar French into their written style. It is suggested that these errors stem partly from the local sociological status of Fr. In Ontario, French is viewed as a secondary lang which suffers from structural underdevelopment. Fr-lang schools cannot begin to remedy the students' linguistic difficulties until areas of the lang requiring particular attention or intervention have been identified, & until realistic & flexible linguistic objectives have been defined. B. Annesser
Theme :
FrancophonesOntarioSociety
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