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- Title
J'ai l'impression que: Lexical Bundles in the Dialogues of Beginner French Textbooks.
- Authors
Vandeweerd, Nathan; Keijzer, Merel
- Abstract
Formulaic language is notoriously difficult for second language learners of French to master (Edmonds, 2014; Forsberg, 2010). Yet, no study has examined formulaic language in French textbooks despite the fact that in many contexts, textbooks represent a significant proportion of the input that learners receive. The current study addresses this gap. Using a distributional approach (as used in Biber, Conrad, & Cortes, 2004), four-word lexical bundles were extracted from an oral corpus of French. The average number of lexical bundles in oral corpus utterances was compared to the average number of bundles in a corpus of A1-B1 level textbook dialogues. An independent samples t test showed that the average number of lexical bundles per 100,000 words was significantly higher in texts from the oral corpus than the textbook corpus. The average number of stance and referential lexical bundles was also revealed to be higher in the oral corpus. Implications for textbook design are discussed, such as increasing the amount of formulaic language in A2 level textbooks and incorporating more authentic language into textbooks.
- Subjects
LEXICAL grammar; ORAL-formulaic analysis; FRENCH language education; TEXTBOOK evaluation; FRENCH as a second language
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadiennne de Linguistique Appliquée, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 2, p80
- ISSN
1481-868X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1057966ar