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French vocabulary in Encore Tricolore: do pupils have a chance?

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The Language Learning Journal, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 7 - 19

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09571736.2012.658219

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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...

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ISSN: 0957-1736 1753-2167
Published: Informa UK Limited 2012
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description 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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