Victorine Hancock

On the role of linguistic contextual factors for morphosyntactic stabilization in high level l2 french

The purpose of this article is to offer contextual linguistic explanations for morphosyntactic deviances (MSDs) in high-level second language (L2) French (30 nonnative speakers vs. 10 native speake ...

Beyond advanced stages in high-level spoken L2 French

The aim of this study is twofold: first, to find evidence for additional advanced stages in L2 French. The continuum of Bartning and Schlyter (2004) is taken as a point of departure. It is hypothesized that a number of linguistic criteria will account for high-level proficiency. It was earlier found that besides morpho-syntax, formulaic sequences and information structure are interesting phenomena for highly proficient learners (Bartning, Forsberg and Hancock, 2009). Three more measures are now added, i.e. perceived nativelikeness, lexical richness and fluency. The second aim of this study is to contribute to the debate on the possibility of nativelike attainment. The study shows that several measures are prone to characterise nativelike performance in highly proficient users among whom some attain nativelikeness.

Quelques éléments modaux dissociés dans le paragraphe oral dans des interviews en francais L2 et L1

Dans cet article nous nous proposons d’analyser quelques elements porteurs de modalite chez des apprenants suedophones et des locuteurs natifs de francais. Notre but et de trouver des traits qui puissent caracteriser l’organisation discursive de l’apprenant avance. Au centre de cette etude a la fois descriptive et comparative sont les elements modaux detaches du rheme, et nous partons de l’analyse faite par Morel & Danon-Boileau (1998) du paragraphe oral sur le francais parle L1. Selon ces auteurs, le preambule - partie thematique et modale du paragraphe oral - est souvent tres « decondense », chez le locuteur natif de francais. Qu’en est-il pour le locuteur de francais L2 ? C’est la question que nous nous posons ici, en analysant un echantillon d’un corpus oral.