LINGUIST List 10.1296

Mon Sep 6 1999

Qs: Language teaching, French liaison

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Ilija Casule, Language teaching
2. ROGER BILLEREY, French liaison

I am attempting to conduct a survey on foreign language teaching at
universities - structure of degrees, proportion of face-to-face
teaching to independent and flexible mode learning, proportion of
theory vs practicals, progress of absolute beginners vs students with
previous knowledge, etc.

The questionnaire involves 9 questions which require very short 
answers.

 Please e-mail me on: icasuleocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au if you would like 
to help me. I will then send you the survey. 

I'd appreciate your cooperation, as many language departments in 
the world are in jeopardy because of the erosion of funding and 
teaching standards.

If I receive enough relevant replies, I will post a summary.

Thanks.
Associate Professor Ilija Casule, Department of European Languages
Macquarie University; Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Dear all,

I am in the process of gathering data on French liaison. I am looking
for references or lists of examples of entire utterances or long
phrases illustrating liaison. As the emphasis is on prosody and
liaison, I am less interested in the standard examples of
suppletion/h-aspire words. Any input would be greatly appreciated. I
will make a summary available to the asking if I get a significant
number of responses. Thanks in advance.

- 
Roger Billerey
Graduate student
Department of Linguistics
UCLA