(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: Linguistik online, 2019/100/7/19/65-94
We investigate how untrained readers perceive the lexical richness of short texts written by 8 to 10-year-olds in French, German and Portuguese. Seven untrained adults rated the lexical richness of a set of argumentative and narrative texts on Likert Scales while performing on a Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) task. Results show that raters consider other criteria than solely vocabulary in their...
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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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In: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht
Lexical diversity and sophistication (in term of average corpus frequency) development in the school language (German or French) is investigated longitudinally in a population of Portuguese heritage speakers aged 8 to 10. Results show an improvement in lexical diversity scores but not in lexical sophistication. Differences were found between Portuguese heritage speakers and age matched children...
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The goal of the project "Multilingual sequences in history lessons: processes to solve intercomprehension tasks and appropriate learner profiles" is twofold: First, the project will adjust worksheets designed in the context of materials development for improving intercomprehension at the secondary II level (reading texts in the source language in history lessons) for use in secondary school...
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(Rapporti del Centro scientifico di competenza per il plurilinguismo)
La pubblicazione di questa rassegna della letteratura sull’insegnamento più precoce o più tardivo delle lingue straniere a scuola giunge in un momento in cui ha luogo in Svizzera un’intensa discussione politica sull’insegnamento delle lingue nella scuola primaria. Per questo motivo ci pare importante chiarire il contesto e la portata effettiva del presente studio.
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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
La publication de cette revue de la littérature concernant l’enseignement précoce ou plus tardif des langues étrangères à l’école intervient au moment où a lieu en Suisse une intense discussion politique portant sur l’enseignement des langues étrangères au primaire. En raison de ce fait, il nous semble important de clarifier le contexte ainsi que la portée effective de la...
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