LINGUIST List 20.4186
Mon Dec 07 2009
Diss: Applied Ling: Schaeffer-Lacroix: 'Corpus Numériques et...'
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1. Eva
Schaeffer-Lacroix,
Corpus Numériques et Production Écrite en Langue Étrangère: Une recherche avec des apprenants d'allemand
Message 1: Corpus Numériques et Production Écrite en Langue Étrangère: Une recherche avec des apprenants d'allemand
Date: 06-Dec-2009
From: Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix <evalacroixfree.fr>
Subject: Corpus Numériques et Production Écrite en Langue Étrangère: Une recherche avec des apprenants d'allemand
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Institution: Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle
Program: Applied linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2009
Author: Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix
Dissertation Title: Corpus Numériques et Production Écrite en Langue Étrangère: Une recherche avec des apprenants d'allemand
Dissertation URL: http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00439095/fr/
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)
Dissertation Director:
Françoise Demaizière
André Salem
Dissertation Abstract:
This action-research in applied linguistics investigates the evolution ofadolescent learners of German as a foreign language during a projectinvolving corpus exploration. It focuses on the role played by resources,tools, face-to-face learning versus distance learning and by thepedagogical relationship. My research analyzes how the learners perceivedand exploited three small specialized corpora containing texts representingeach one sub-genre of the 'tourist information' genre. The learnersexplored them by means of concordance lines. Firstly, I observe what thelearners said about the input and what they did with it. Secondly, Idescribe how the language and the discourse used in the texts changedduring the project. The tasks and tools of the project helped some of thelearners to develop reading habits which focus on information retrievalmore than on complete comprehension of the text. The effects are textswritten in a German having linguistic features that resemble those attestedin the explored corpora. The intertextual writing method offered by theproject supports acculturation to the foreign language. By means ofconcordancing and the import of collocations, the learners are now able todeal with some language features, especially with the domain of Germanadjective inflection, better than before.
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