Retention or omission of the <i>ne</i> in advanced French interlanguage: The variable effect of extralinguistic factors

Dewaele, Jean‐Marc

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2004.00268.x

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“…For example, the status of the negative particle ne in L2 learning has been extensively researched as a feature known to be variable in both native-speaker and L2 speech (Armstrong & Smith 2002, Coveney 2002. L2 research suggests that its omission and retention in speech can not only approximate native-speaker production, but that the same factors that predict its use by native speakers, namely frequency, linguistic, and social context, also strongly influence use in L2 speech (see Dewaele 2004;Regan et al 2009). Such findings indicate a critical role for the linguistic context of utterances in L2 learning.…”

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Subjunctive use and development in L2 French

McManus

Mitchell

2015

LIA

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We investigated the use and development of the Subjunctive in L2 French. Participants were 29 students of French at a UK university, who additionally spent nine months in France, and ten native speakers of French. Data were collected from two production tasks (oral and written) and a grammaticality judgement task. The results show that all participants made some use of the Subjunctive before leaving for France, with only limited development in its use during their stay. It is more frequently used in writing than in speech, consistent with French corpus-based research (O'Connor DiVito 1997). The judgement findings reveal significant differences between different Subjunctive triggers, with learners consistently better able to recognise affirmative triggers over conjunctions and negatives. Overall, it appears that affirmative Subjunctive triggers represent a key source of development, with most change evident for lower proficiency learners.

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Section: The Subjunctive In L2 Acquisitionmentioning

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Subjunctive use and development in L2 French

McManus

Mitchell

2015

LIA

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“…Apart from the effects of extraversion on fluency, accuracy and complexity extravert L2 users have also been reported to produce significantly more colloquial words (Dewaele 2004a), more emotion words (Dewaele and Pavlenko 2002), and more non-standard sociolinguistic variants (Dewaele 2004b).…”

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The effect of extraversion on oral L2 proficiency

Daele

Housen²,

Pierrard³

et al. 2006

EUROSLA

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This study investigates the commonly-held belief in the SLA community that second language acquisition is somehow influenced by the learner's personality. It builds on previous research on the relation between one personality variable, extraversion, and second language acquisition but is innovative in three ways. First, it examines L2 learners' speech production in two rather than one L2 and thus puts to the test the hypothesis that the effect of extraversion is stable across different target languages (Dewaele and Furnham 2000). Secondly, whereas most previous studies have investigated the effect of extraversion on fluency (e.g. Rossier 1976, Tapasak, Roodin and Vaught 1978, Busch 1982, Dewaele 1998 this study also looks at the potential effect of this variable on the linguistic accuracy and complexity of learners' L2 speech production. Thirdly, whereas previous studies were mostly cross-sectional in design, this study adds a longitudinal perspective by considering to what extent the effect of the extraversion-introversion dimension on the fluency, complexity and accuracy of learners' L2 production remains stable over time. Participants were 25 Dutch-speaking secondary school students learning both English and French as foreign languages in Flanders, Belgium.

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“…Given the heterogeneous nature of learner groups in terms of linguistic development, the causes underlying omission are likely to be varied, which would account for the large within-group variation in omission rates. Dewaele (2004a) analysed interindividual variation in omission rates of the preverbal particle ne in 991 negations produced in conversations between seventythree NS and NNS of French who were students at Birkbeck College, London. Both endogenous (user internal) and exogeneous (user external) extralinguistic factors were found to be linked to omission rates of ne (mean = 64 per cent for the nine NS, and 27 per cent for the sixty-four NNS).…”

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The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in French as a foreign language: an overview

Dewaele

2004

French Language Studies

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The present contribution presents an overview of studies in French as a second (L2) and/or foreign language that consider the effects of extralinguistic variables (mostly instructional, experiential and situational factors) on the development of sociolinguistic competence. It focuses specifically on variation between informal and formal variants in phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax and the lexicon.

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Retention or omission of the ne in advanced French interlanguage: The variable effect of extralinguistic factors

Cited by 105 publications

References 39 publications

Subjunctive use and development in L2 French

Subjunctive use and development in L2 French

The effect of extraversion on oral L2 proficiency

The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in French as a foreign language: an overview

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