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Peer reviewedMoorcroft, R.; Gardner, R. C. – Language Learning, 1987
Investigation of the linguistic features lost in oral French over a vacation period by English-speaking ninth graders (N=89) revealed significant reductions in total time, speaking time, number of pauses, quantity of production, and grammatical accuracy on tasks requiring production of discourse, suggesting a general deterioration in language…
Descriptors: French, Grade 9, High Schools, Language Proficiency


