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Speaking Spanish like a Boy Scout: Language Socialization, Resistance, and Reproduction in a Heritage Language Scout Troop
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Guardado, Martin – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article offers a critical analysis of the language socialization of Spanish-speaking families in a Scout group in Metro Vancouver. Using tools of discourse analysis, the article examines the language use patterns of the participants, particularly focusing on the language ideologies to which they oriented themselves and the identities indexed…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Ideology, Socialization, Criticism
Problems of French Grammar and Usage: No. 22. The Position of Adjectives--V
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Jeanes, R. W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
Descriptors: Adjectives, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
L'article de presse: Pour une lecture en profondeur (The Newspaper Article: For In-Depth Reading).
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Ruprecht, Alvina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1982
Several pedagogical approaches are described that aid at in-depth understanding of the journalistic text by examining the way the journalist's discourse functions. By demystifying the discourse, the instructor makes the learner aware of the mechanisms of manipulation and orientation at the journalist's disposal. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Language Patterns, Language Skills, Language Usage
L'Onomatopee dans la classe de francais (Onomatopoeia in the French Class).
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Brunet, Jean-Paul – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
Onomatopoeia is overlooked in many French grammar courses but plays a key role in everyday speech. Classification according to the feelings communicated stresses their importance. Students enjoy learning the sounds produced by animals in a second language and discovering the abundance of onomatopoeia in songs, commercials, comic books, and slang.…
Descriptors: Advertising, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Comics (Publications)
Comportement linguistique de jeunes Alsaciens. (Linguistic Behavior of Young Alsatians.)
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Khettry, Francoise – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1982
A study of language use of bilingual Alsatian youth, 15-18 years old, showed French acculturation to be growing, although German dialectal tendencies persist. Socioeconomic status and the role of recent generations in this process are considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Family Life
Speech Protocols and Verbal Strategies in the Teaching of Italian
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Di Pietro, Robert J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
This article stresses the idea that teaching communicative competence and the ability to deal with a variety of language situations should be the goal of foreign language teaching, with grammar instruction in a secondary position. Teaching by means of "dialogues with options" is discussed and sample dialogues for Italian instruction are given.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Literary), Italian, Language Instruction
Repetition in the Collaborative Discourse of L2 Learners: A Vygotskian Perspective.
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DiCamilla, Frederick J.; Anton, Marta – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1997
A study analyzed repetition in the discourse of students of Spanish as a second language working on a writing assignment in collaborative dyads (n=5). Results show the sociocultural and mental activity was mediated by repetition of both first- and second-language utterances, whose effect was to create and maintain a shared perspective of the task…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
Conversations in Slow Motion: Computer-Mediated Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom.
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Beauvois, Margaret Healy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Reviews early research on innovative use of networked computers in language learning, focusing on a study of computer-mediated discussion that examined student/student and student/teacher interactions in a college French course. Due to rapid nature of computer-mediated exchanges, the "conversation" is a hybrid somewhere between writing and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Discourse Analysis
Articulatory Economy in Present-Day American Spanish.
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Kadler, Eric H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Describes features of articulatory shortcuts discovered among middle class, educated native speakers of Spanish in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is maintained that these features should be taught to students of Spanish in order that they may understand colloquial Spanish speech. (AM)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Instruction