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The Longitudinal Effect of Bilingual Immersion Schooling on Cognitive Control and Intelligence
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Woumans, Evy; Surmont, Jill; Struys, Esli; Duyck, Wouter – Language Learning, 2016
Throughout the past century, the effects of bilingualism on general cognition have been extensively explored. Studies evolved from a negative to a more positive perspective, but longitudinal assessments of effects of bilingualism are scarce. This study investigated the long-term effect of becoming a bilingual on the development of general…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Bilingualism, French, Socioeconomic Status
Affective Factors Influencing Fluent Performance: French Learners' Appraisals of Second Language Speech Tasks
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Kormos, Judit; Préfontaine, Yvonne – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present mixed-methods study examined the role of learner appraisals of speech tasks in second language (L2) French fluency. Forty adult learners in a Canadian immersion program participated in the study that compared four sources of data: (1) objectively measured utterance fluency in participants' performances of three narrative tasks…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
The Relationship between Task Difficulty and Second Language Fluency in French: A Mixed Methods Approach
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Préfontaine, Yvonne; Kormos, Judit – Modern Language Journal, 2015
While there exists a considerable body of literature on task-based difficulty and second language (L2) fluency in English as a second language (ESL), there has been little investigation with French learners. This mixed methods study examines learner appraisals of task difficulty and their relationship to automated utterance fluency measures in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level
How Do Utterance Measures Predict Raters' Perceptions of Fluency in French as a Second Language?
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Préfontaine, Yvonne; Kormos, Judit; Johnson, Daniel Ezra – Language Testing, 2016
While the research literature on second language (L2) fluency is replete with descriptions of fluency and its influence with regard to English as an additional language, little is known about what fluency features influence judgments of fluency in L2 French. This study reports the results of an investigation that analyzed the relationship between…
Descriptors: Prediction, French, Second Language Learning, Evaluators
An Investigation of Working Memory Effects on Oral Grammatical Accuracy and Fluency in Producing Questions in English
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Wright, Clare – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
This article addresses the question of how far working memory may affect second language (L2) learners' improvement in spoken language during a period of immersion. Research is presented testing the hypothesis that individual differences in working memory (WM) capacity are associated with individual variation in improvements in oral production of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Perceptions of French Fluency in Second Language Speech Production
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Préfontaine, Yvonne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2013
Recent literature in second language (L2) perceived fluency has focused on English as a second language, with a primary reliance on impressions from native-speaker judges, leaving learners' self-perceptions of speech production unexplored. This study investigates the relationship between learners' and judges' perceptions of French fluency under…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, French, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning