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- Title
Développement de la compétence linguistique permettant l'accord du verbe en nombre à l'écrit chez des élèves de l'élémentaire en contexte minoritaire.
- Authors
Thibeault, Joël; Fleuret, Carole; Lefrançois, Pascale
- Abstract
This study explores the development of the linguistic competency underlying subject-verb agreement in number in its written form among eight students who were schooled in French in Southwestern Ontario, a francophone minority setting. Through a theoretical framework that unites the work of scholars who focus on first and second language writing development, and the analysis of data collected from a completion task and written productions, three developmental modalities emerged. In the first group, writers developed an operational competency at the beginning of the study, and their competency remained relatively stable throughout the 13 months of the research. The second group of writers showed, throughout this period of time, a competency that does not allow the agreement of verbs in the plural, even when the syntactic environment in which it is written is relatively simple. Finally, the third group demonstrated a competency that was similar to that of the pupils of the second group at the beginning of the study. However, this third group's linguistic competency, between the last two data collection sessions, showed an accelerated development. The data are discussed in light of the results of studies on first and second language writing, and illuminate the specificities related to the learning of written French in minority settings.
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadiennne de Linguistique Appliquée, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 2, p19
- ISSN
1481-868X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1057964ar