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Publication details [#28781]

Robert, Jean-Michel. 1998. Towards a teaching of French to English-speaking learners by cognate comprehension. ITL 121 - 122 : 39–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | language distance | language, comprehension of | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper argues that cognate comprehension, a didactic strategy based on innate adaptation, commonly used to learn a closely related language, can also be applied to the teaching of French to English-speaking learners.