LINGUIST List 13.842

Wed Mar 27 2002

Qs: French Ling Texts, L2/Instrumental Orientation

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  • GBidoric, Textbooks
  • AL.Maawali Sameera, L2 Students and Instrumental Orientation

    Message 1: Textbooks

     Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:07:46 -0000
    From: GBidoric <gbidoricpostman.dk>
    Subject: Textbooks


    Dear linguistlist members,

    I am looking for French textbooks in general linguistics and morphosyntax. The courses I have to teach are aimed at undergraduate students.

    a) Could anyone recommend textbooks in French for these two subjects ? b) What other reading material (French or English) would you recommend to complement the textbooks ?

    Thank you for your help.

    G. Bidoric Denmark

    Message 2: L2 Students and Instrumental Orientation

     Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:47:24 -0800 (PST)
    From: AL.Maawali Sameera <aadle6yahoo.com>
    Subject: L2 Students and Instrumental Orientation


    Dear Linguistlist,

    I am posing a question about instrumental motivation and its relatioship with, during course performance, social/personal motivation , and motivational intensity. I would like to get some advice on this I really need something about measuring instrumental orientation with L2 students using certain tasks to tell if there is any relationship between this kind of orientation and students' during-course performance. Thus my question is: what kind of tasks can be used for this function? i have thought of keeping diaries , opening sentence to direct towrds future planning and then check if students would write something about instrumental orientations like : seeking a good job, getting the degree, high marks ..etc. Dornyei, Schmidt, Gardner are the ones i need to read for. I could not find Oxford. R. I am not sure of the name of book but it is something like ' Pathway to the New Century'. I need to get hold of Thayer's book or article about motivation in classroom.

    I really hope that you can help me. thanks a lot.

    samira