Gender attribution of foreign learners

ARTICLE

Assignment of Grammatical Gender by Native Speakers and Foreign Learners of French.

Holmes, V. M.; de la Batie, B. Dejean

Applied Psycholinguistics, v20 n4 p479-506 Dec 1999

Compared the skill in gender attribution of foreign learners and native speakers of French. Accuracy and fluency of gender attribution by the foreign learners were assessed in spontaneous written production.

Comparative Analysis; French; Grammar; Language Fluency; Native Speakers; Nouns; Psycholinguistics; Second Language Learning; Written Language