Leif Michael French
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leif Michael French plays a role.
Articles
2022 I hear you, I see you, I know who you are: Attitudes towards ethnolinguistically marked French Lx speech in a traditionally homogeneous city Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:2, pp. 279–303 | Article
The present study investigated the attitudes of long-time residents of Quebec City towards French Lx economic immigrants settling into their community. We evaluated the speech of four linguistic groups (English, Spanish, Mandarin and Farsi) using the verbal-guise methodology. Listeners were… read more
2022 Long-term effects of intensive instruction on fluency, comprehensibility and accentedness The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 103–124 | Chapter
We assessed the long-term effects of intensive instruction on different aspects of L2 oral production. Adopting the tridimensional model of oral production (Munro & Derwing, 1995a), we compared high school learners who had received intensive ESL instruction (N = 42) with non-intensive learners… read more
2020 Long-term effects of intensive instruction on fluency, comprehensibility and accentedness 25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 380–401 | Article
We assessed the long-term effects of intensive instruction on different aspects of L2 oral production. Adopting the tridimensional model of oral production (Munro & Derwing, 1995a), we compared high school learners who had received intensive ESL instruction (N = 42) with non-intensive learners… read more