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- Title
Investigating lexical proficiency development over time -- the case of Dutch-speaking learners of French in Brussels.
- Authors
BRAM BULT?; ALEX HOUSEN; MICHEL PIERRARD; SISKA VAN DAELE
- Abstract
This article aims (a) to explore the operationalisation and definition of lexical L2 proficiency and related constructs with a view to identifying a set of measures that can adequately capture the dynamics of lexical L2 proficiency development over time, and (b) to shed more light on the development of lexical proficiency in French Foreign Language classes. After a discussion of theoretical, terminological and methodological issues in L2 vocabulary research, we present a longitudinal quantitative study of the lexical development of Dutch-speaking adolescents learning FFL in Dutch-medium schools in Brussels over a three-year period and compare these learners' lexical proficiency in French to native speaker benchmarks.
- Subjects
BRUSSELS (Belgium); BELGIUM; FRENCH language education; FRENCH language; OPERATIONAL definitions; FRENCH language -- Foreign countries; VOCABULARY; DUTCH language; LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of French Language Studies, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
0959-2695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959269508003451