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Teaching language variation in French through authentic chat discourse

  • Rémi A. van Compernolle und Isabelle Pierozak
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Abstract

In this chapter, we provide a glimpse into the nature of moderated and non-moderated French-language chat in public, non-educational contexts, and we enumerate and explain a number of pedagogical applications aimed at helping learners of French participate in and have greater access to this type of authentic discourse beyond the classroom. We first present a corpus-based analysis of language variation in moderated and nonmoderated chat discussions, focusing in particular on orthography, the second-person pronouns tu and vous, the first-person plural pronouns nous and on, and verbal negation, in order to demonstrate the amount and types of variation that exist in these two different types of synchronous computer-mediated communication. We then provide a number of pedagogical recommendations for teaching sociolinguistic variation in French using computer-mediated communication data. The sample tasks and task components are conceptualized to include one or more spheres of learning opportunities proposed by the New London Group (1996).

Abstract

In this chapter, we provide a glimpse into the nature of moderated and non-moderated French-language chat in public, non-educational contexts, and we enumerate and explain a number of pedagogical applications aimed at helping learners of French participate in and have greater access to this type of authentic discourse beyond the classroom. We first present a corpus-based analysis of language variation in moderated and nonmoderated chat discussions, focusing in particular on orthography, the second-person pronouns tu and vous, the first-person plural pronouns nous and on, and verbal negation, in order to demonstrate the amount and types of variation that exist in these two different types of synchronous computer-mediated communication. We then provide a number of pedagogical recommendations for teaching sociolinguistic variation in French using computer-mediated communication data. The sample tasks and task components are conceptualized to include one or more spheres of learning opportunities proposed by the New London Group (1996).

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