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Variation, chaos et système en interlangue française

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Dewaele, Jean-Marc·2002·Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère

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La présente étude considère le phénomène d’instabilité dans le choix des pronoms d’adresse (vous et tu) en français natif et non-natif. Nous arguons que la Théorie du Chaos et de la Complexité offre des concepts utiles pour décrire les interactions extrêmement complexes qui déterminent le choix de pronoms d’adresse. L’usage dépend premièrement du niveau de compétence grammaticale des apprenants et deuxièmement de leur niveau de compétence sociolinguistique. Ce savoir est d’abord de nature explicite, stocké dans la mémoire déclarative, et est reconstruit plus tard comme savoir implicite dans la mémoire implicite. Ce n’est que lorsque les apprenants ont développé les représentations conceptuelles nécessaires sur l’usage « approprié » du vouvoiement et du tutoiement qu’ils peuvent se rapprocher de l’usage variable des natifs. Tant que ces représentations conceptuelles sont incomplètes, les apprenants ont des taux d’usage très dispersés.

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  • tu is the second-person pronoun used almost exclusively by many immersion students.

    “By far the most frequent of the two forms, as well as the one with simpler verb forms, tu is the secondperson pronoun used almost exclusively by many immersion students”

    From Research on form-focused instruction in immersion classrooms: implications for theory and practice (2004) · cites this paper as Dewaele, 2002

    Section 2.2 quotes an observation that some French second-language learners use tu almost exclusively. It does not establish that this is true of many immersion students: the immersion study discussed in the same section concerns improvement in the use of vous. The cited passages also do not establish that tu is by far the more frequent form or has simpler verb forms. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Dewaele, J.-M.
Affiliations
Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
Corresponding author
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
Venue
Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère
Publisher
OpenEdition
Published
2002
Volume
17
Pages
143-167
ISSN
  • 1243-969X (ISSN-L)
  • 1778-7432
OpenAlex
W1900814885
Cited by
60
References
0
Citations by year
2024: 39 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
FWCI
7.98
Type
journal article
Language
fr
Open access
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other-oa
Locations
  • Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère (publishedVersion)
  • BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (acceptedVersion)
  • OpenEdition (OpenEdition) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • YorkSpace (York University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › French Language Learning Methods
Keywords
address terms, French as a second language, grammatical variation, sociolinguistic competence, conceptual representation

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