TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning to read liaison in French as a Foreign Language
T2 - A longitudinal study of beginner Japanese learners in Japan
AU - Detey, Sylvain
AU - Racine, Isabelle
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant numbers JP 2332012 and JP15H03227 granted to S. Detey. We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Yuji Kawaguchi, co-director the IPFC project, who helped us collect the data used in this study, as well as all the students who agreed to participate. We would also like to thank Professor Mariko Kondo for her help with the CLIJAF project, Marion Didelot for her help with the statistical analyses, Camille Lambert and Marie-Laure Sandoz for their help with data coding, as well as Malin Agren and Martin Howard, the guest editors of this special issue of LIA, for their interest in our work, for their patience and for all their editorial and scientific work. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their very useful comments, as well as Dana Cohen for her editorial work. Last but not least, we would like to thank Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche for their precious remarks on a first version of this article.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant numbers JP 2332012 and JP 15H03227 granted to S. Detey. We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Yuji Kawaguchi, co-director the IPFC project, who helped us collect the data used in this study, as well as all the students who agreed to participate. We would also like to thank Professor Mariko Kondo for her help with the CLIJAF project, Marion Didelot for her help with the statistical analyses, Camille Lambert and Marie-Laure Sandoz for their help with data coding, as well as Malin Ågren and Martin Howard, the guest editors of this special issue of LIA, for their interest in our work, for their patience and for all their editorial and scientific work. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their very useful comments, as well as Dana Cohen for her editorial work. Last but not least, we would like to thank Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche for their precious remarks on a first version of this article.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - French as Foreign Language
KW - Japanese learners
KW - Liaison
KW - Longitudinal study
KW - Reading
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U2 - 10.1075/lia.17020.det
DO - 10.1075/lia.17020.det
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065887080
VL - 10
SP - 96
EP - 116
JO - LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition
JF - LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition
SN - 1879-7865
IS - 1
ER -