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French vocabulary in Encore Tricolore: do pupils have a chance?
The Language Learning Journal, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 7 - 19
Swansea University Author:
Cornelia Tschichold
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09571736.2012.658219
Abstract
British learners acquire very little vocabulary in their foreign languages, compared to pupils elsewhere in Europe, particularly learners of English as a foreign language. Could the materials used for teaching help explain this difference? An analysis of the vocabulary loading of a textbook for Fren...
| Published in: | The Language Learning Journal |
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| ISSN: | 0957-1736 1753-2167 |
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Informa UK Limited
2012
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11193 |
| Abstract: |
British learners acquire very little vocabulary in their foreign languages, compared to pupils elsewhere in Europe, particularly learners of English as a foreign language. Could the materials used for teaching help explain this difference? An analysis of the vocabulary loading of a textbook for French as a foreign language commonly used in Britain, Encore Tricolore (Mascie-Taylor and Honnor, 2001, Cheltenham, UK, Nelson Thornes), was carried out with this question in mind. An analysis of the vocabulary suggests that it is not introduced and practised in a way that is conducive to building a sufficiently large vocabulary to reach level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). |
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| Keywords: |
vocabulary, French as a foreign language, CEFR |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
| Start Page: |
7 |
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19 |