VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels

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https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000715399900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
DOI
10.1515/multi-2021-0016
eISSN
1613-3684
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ISSN
0167-8507
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
6
Zeitschrift
MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION
Schlüsselwörter
  • French as a foreign language
  • heritage languages
  • metalinguistic awareness
  • orthography
  • Voice Onset Time (VOT)
  • writing skills
Paginierung
745 - 769
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2021
Status
Published
Titel
VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels
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  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
40

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Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We investigate the interrelations between pronunciation and writing skills in French as a foreign language produced by two groups of bilingual learners (German-Russian; German-Turkish) and a monolingually raised German control group (each <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 10). As an indicator of the learners’ pronunciation skills, we refer to a perceptually relevant acoustic feature of stop production, “Voice Onset Time” (VOT). Our aim is to explore whether the learners’ proficiency at the level of pronunciation is mirrored in (1) their global language competencies and (2) their writing skills. We applied an extreme-cases approach based on the learners’ VOT productions in L3 French. Both positive and negative deviations from the French target pronunciation were found in all groups. In orthography, bilinguals showed lower correctness scores as compared to monolinguals. The VOT measurements yielded more target-like results for the bilinguals. For the monolinguals, the results reveal no correlation between pronunciation and general language proficiency as well as writing skills. In the bilinguals the investigated phenomena were more interrelated. Our analysis of semi-focused interviews conducted with all participants revealed that more target-like VOT productions correlate with a greater degree of phonological and multilingual awareness. This suggests that phonological and cross-linguistic awareness should be fostered in today’s multilingual classrooms.</jats:p>
Autoren
DOI
10.1515/multi-2021-0016
eISSN
1613-3684
ISSN
0167-8507
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
6
Zeitschrift
Multilingua
Sprache
en
Online publication date
2021
Paginierung
745 - 769
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2021
Status
Published
Herausgeber
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2021-0016
Datum der Datenerfassung
2023
Titel
VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic levels
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
40

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