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At the start of this commemorative season, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León will pay tribute to Gabriel Fauré on the 100th anniversary of his death by performing his evocative Pelléas et Mélisande. They introduce two new names to our audience: the French conductor Fabien Gabel and the Swedish trumpet virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, an international reference in trumpet performance. Hardenberger
In order to acquire new languages, we need to be exposed to large amounts of target language (TL) input. However, studying French as a foreign language in Sweden includes few opportunities to encounter the language outside the classroom. This means that the teacher plays a decisive role as an input provider in the French L2 teaching setting. Moreover, the Swedish syllabus for modern languages, inc
Den första av två artiklar rörande det fängelse, den s k proban, som Lunds universitet hade under den tid lärosätet ägde egen jurisdiktion över anställda och studenter. Denna första del behandlar fenomenet med skol- och universitetsfängelser generellt samt Lunds universitets specifika sådana under 1600- och 1700-talen.
Languages are used to communicate and to perceive the environment. Therefore, they are related to the way in which human beings think and conceptualize the world. Consequently, learning a new language entails cognitive changes that go beyond the purely linguistic use and mastery of it. Thus, not only new forms are learned, but also new ways of describing and perceiving the world are acquired, sinc
According to certain researchers, such as Meisel (2008), a child has a similar way of acquiring a second language (cL2 learners) as adults (aL2 learners) do after the age of four. However, the difference of age and cognitive maturation between an adult and a child awakes ones curiousness of investigating how much the linguistic development of a cL2 learner resembles the one of aL2 learners. This s
This study aims to investigate how advanced Swedish-speaking learners of French understand and interpret conversations in French. Based on a conversation analysis of two conversations with native speakers of French, two experiments were conducted. An important part of the present study is the design of the new methodology which puts together Conversation Analysis and L2 Acquisition. A pilote study
