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- Title
Sociolinguistic variation in French as a foreign language: a case study.
- Authors
Green, Elizabeth Krista
- Abstract
This article investigates the relations between sociolinguistic competence and performance in French as a foreign language (FFL). Five 2nd year and five final year FFL students at the University of Manchester were interviewed formally by a French native speaker (NS) and informally by a non-native speaker (NNS) and asked to ill out a questionnaire in order to discover whether a period of immersion in France had impacted on their awareness and/or production of three sociolinguistic variables: use of ne in clause negation; use of on and nous to express 1st person plural referents; and left dislocation. The results show that while the 2nd Years showed unexpected levels of sociolinguistic performance, their competency questionnaires indicated that they did not always understand the rules behind the variables. Final year students, on the other hand, often over-applied NS norms in an inappropriate (formal) setting, despite relatively high sociolinguistic competency. These results indicate that sociolinguistic competence should be included in the teaching programme at this University in order for the students to learn how to use such variables correctly.
- Subjects
FRENCH as a second language; COMPETENCE &; performance (Linguistics); SOCIOLINGUISTIC research; COLLEGE students; RESEARCH; UNIVERSITY of Manchester
- Publication
Synergies Pays Scandinaves, 2012, Issue 7, p139
- ISSN
1901-3809
- Publication type
Case Study