Publications

Publication details [#53696]

Lightbown, Patsy M., Nina Spada and Ahlem Ammar. 2010. Awareness of L1/L2 differences: does it matter? Language Awareness 19 (2) : 129–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | L2-acquisition | language awareness | language proficiency | question

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study demonstrates the existence of a positive relationship between francophone learners of English as a second language (ESL)' awareness of L1-L2 differences and their competence to properly judge and formulate questions in English.