Improving Fluency in Spoken French Through a Study of Native Pause Behavior.

Scanlan, Timothy

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ERIC Number: EJ363562

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Publication Date: 1987

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Improving Fluency in Spoken French Through a Study of Native Pause Behavior.

Scanlan, Timothy

Foreign Language Annals, v20 n4 p345-52 Sep 1987

Reviews the different categories of native pauses and describes techniques for incorporating them cautiously into the spoken French of anglophones (especially Americans), suggesting that proper pause behavior is actually a definite mark of authentic sounding and well-controlled speech. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Fluency, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm, Oral Language, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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