Minority language students in a French programme: their French proficiency  

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Swain, Margaret ; Bild, E. R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development vol. 10 no. 3 (1989), page 255-274.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JMM/10 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Bilingual and unilingual students in a grade-eight EnglishFrench bilingual programme in Ontario were compared on measures of French proficiency. Forty-seven students were selected on the basis of their first language: English, Italian or a non-Romance language. French proficiency was measured using two written cloze tests and two oral story-telling tasks. One of each pair of tests was presented in a contextreduced condition and the other in a context-embedded condition. As hypothesised, bilinguals were found to perform si~cantly better than unilinguals on almost all the measures. No differences were discernible, however, with respect to their performance on context-embedded and context-reduced tasks. It was concluded that knowing a second language facilitates the learning of a third language and thus, bilingual children are excellent candidates for French immersion programmes.

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