Abstract
Many of the studies devoted to the acquisition of liaison in French as a foreign language have been carried out with advanced learners, whose first languages were often typologically close to French, and typically without much consideration to the graphophonemic dimension, which is an essential part of the learning process. In this article, we provide a brief overview of the linguistic and contextual factors in the acquisition of liaison by Japanese learners of French in Japan, with a particular focus on the connection between literacy and phonological skills. We then present initial results of a two-year longitudinal study (four sessions) of text-reading tasks with beginner Japanese learners of French (n = 12) in Tokyo, using the same tasks employed in two large corpora of French native (PFC) and non-native (IPFC) speakers/readers. Our data offer a glimpse into the evolution of these learners during the initial acquisition of L2 phonological/literacy skills.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 96-116 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Jan 1 |
Keywords
- French as Foreign Language
- Japanese learners
- Liaison
- Longitudinal study
- Reading
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Communication
- Linguistics and Language