French as a foreign language in the Netherlands

Abstract Exposure to English is more extensive in today’s society than French. In this study we investigated crosslinguistic influences from Dutch and/or language performances French as a foreign language, while controlling for proficiency French, and Dutch, exposure English. We tested learners of ( n = 65) with respect the acceptability reduced relative clauses attachment preferences full clauses. The results showed influence task preference respectively. Furthermore, seems affect concluded that these findings support Linguistic Proximity Model Westergaard et al. 2017 ) secondary education might be third instead second language.