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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
The project Heritage language and school language: are literacy skills transferable? (HELASCOT) addresses the linguistic development in migrant children of Portuguese descent in Switzerland. It focuses primarily on the children’s literacy skills (reading comprehension and writing skills) in their heritage language (i.e. Portuguese) and in the language of instruction in the region in...
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In: Esercizi di fantalinguistica, 2019, p. 33-39
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In: Verbal Communication, 2016, p. 429-446
Verbal communication involving more than one language is widespread, both historically and geographically. This chapter provides an overview of multilingual ‘regimes’ of communication, covering different phenomena such as lingua franca communication or receptive multilingualism. The chapter discusses the consequences of multilingual language use as an institutionalized pattern for individual...
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In: D. Thürer & R. Blindenbacher (Eds.), Embracing Differences. Wertschätzung des Andersseins. Zürich - Basel - Genève: Schulthess, pp. 27–38
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In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019, p. 1-13
Juggling with structurally and semantically different language systems leads to constructions that differ from the typical patterns in a language. Typical patterns in the domain of motion are characterized by more verbs encoding path in French; and more verbs encoding the manner of motion in German. An increase of manner verbs in French, for instance, can be ascribed to an influence from...
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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
This research overview focuses on differences between individuals when it comes to results in learning foreign languages in school. The aim is to identify and discuss studies about factors responsible for differences in the potential to learn foreign languages from one individual to the next as well as the various tools designed to evaluate them (MLAT, LLAMA, CANAL-FT, FLCAS etc.). The ...
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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
This research overview focuses on differences between individuals when it comes to results in learning foreign languages in school. The aim is to identify and discuss studies about factors responsible for differences in the potential to learn foreign languages from one individual to the next as well as the various tools designed to evaluate them (MLAT, LLAMA, CANAL-FT, FLCAS etc.). The research...
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In: Journal of Writing Research, 2019, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 499-525
We investigated how well readers’ perceptions of the lexical richness of short texts can be predicted on the basis of automatically computable indices of the texts’ lexical properties. 3,060 French, German and Portuguese texts (between 9 and 284 words long) written by 8- to 10-year-olds were rated for their lexical richness by between 3 and 18 uninstructed raters, and over 150 indices were...
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La question de la place de l’allemand dans le canton et la ville de Fribourg fait débat depuis des décennies déjà. De nombreux rapports scientifiques, expertises et interventions politiques en attestent. La Constitution du canton de Fribourg (Cst. FR) retient que le français et l’allemand sont les langues officielles du canton et que leur utilisation est réglée dans le respect du...
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