BACKGROUND Although the reliable and valid Child Post-Traumatic Stress Reaction Index (CPTS-RI) is a widely used measure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in children, it has not been validated in French-speaking populations. The present study aims to assess the psychometric properties of the CPTS-RI in three samples of French-speaking school-children. METHODS Data was obtained...

Learning to read is very challenging for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but also very important, as it can give them access to new knowledge. This is even more challenging in minimally verbal children, who do not have the verbal abilities to learn through usual methods. To address the learning of literacy skills in French minimally verbal school-aged children with ASD, we design...

This article quantitatively studies the patterns of Tunisian Arabic/French codeswitching and the possible implications for contact-induced change in the Tunisian dialect. The purpose is to account for the extent of the occurrence of code-switching across gender lines and levels of education and assess its role in the interference from French into Arabic, both at the lexical and structural level...

The present study examines how Swiss German learners cope with the contrast between voiced and unvoiced obstruents in L2 French. The feature [±voice]) is not exploited in Swiss German dialects, where pairs of obstruents sharing the same place and manner of articulation are basically differentiated in terms of longer or shorter duration (i.e., the feature [±tense]). Therefore, we expect that Swi...

This study analyzes middle school students' spontaneous mathematics-related help-seeking behavior, in view of making ecologically valid recommendations for the design of supporting tools or "help systems". Our aim was to investigate the content of students' help-seeking messages – Are there different forms of help-seeking messages and do they evolve with age? We used the archives of a French fo...

By conducting an apparent-time analysis of the OFROM corpus collected in Francophone Switzerland, this study examined use genre as discourse marker speech 306 French L1 speakers. First, we effect extralinguistic factors on discursive genre. The logistic mixed-effects regression results revealed that emerging is indeed ongoing change led by female speakers Swiss French. This was favored monoling...

The objective of this article is to present the first results of a research related to the design of a linguistic resource dedicated to help pupils in their learning process. We intend to show how a dictionary for language specialists can be adapted in order to help children to learn French language. By "linguistic resource" we mean any document (paper and computerized), which presents us with ...

The present study investigated the acquisition of French stop consonants in English-speaking children who attend a French immersion elementary school in Alberta, Canada. Both languages have voiced and voiceless stops, but in English the distinction is phonetically realized as short-lag vs. long-lag VOTs, while in French it is as lead vs. short-lag VOTs. Examining the development of stops in thi...