Publications

Publication details [#41519]

Lightbown, Patsy M. and Nina Spada. 2000. Do They Know What They're Doing? L2 Learners' Awareness of L1 Influence. Language Awareness 9 (4) : 198–217.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

first language acquisition | language awareness | language input | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | French, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article examines to what extent 11 to12-year-old francophone students in Quebec can make explicit first language rules that appear to affect their English as a second language performance.