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The development of the passé composé in lower-intermediate learners of French as a second language
- Abstract:
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In this study we tracked the development of the passé composé in second-language learners of French whose first language is English. Although the passé composé is a highly used tense among native speakers of French and it appears to present particular difficulty for first-language English speakers, its second-language development has been surprisingly under-researched. In order to trace developmental patterns of the the passé composé we obtained a corpus of obligato...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Language Learning Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 5-19
- Publication date:
- 2008-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1753-2167
- ISSN:
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0957-1736
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- ora:4487
- Deposit date:
- 2010-11-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Association for Language Learning
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Macaro, E. & Graham, S. (2008). 'The development of the passé composé in lower-intermediate learners of French as a second language', Language Learning Journal 36(1), 5-19. [Available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rllj].
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