The authors studied whether Latin or French as a foreign curricular language is a better preparation for learning Spanish. Fifty native German speakers who took a university Spanish course concluded their course with a translation test. English was the 1st foreign language for all students, whereas half of them had learned French and the other half had learned Latin as their 2nd foreign languag...

120 normal right-handed subjects, children and adults, with opposite reading habits (60 French, left-to-right readers, 60 Israeli, right-to-left readers) and 60 pre-school children (30 French and 30 Israeli), were submitted to a visuo-motor bisection task. Bisection is found to be dependent upon reading habits with a leftward deviation of the subjective middle for left-to-right readers, and a r...

andré chénier (1762-1794) is the greatest and the best known french poet of the 18th century. he is famous especially for his courageous opposition to the power of the terror in the early years of the french revolution which caused finally his death by guillotine. the study of his poetical works can clarify the literary transition between neoclassicism and romanticism. this paper, by describing...

This article develops out of a broader study of 250 texts which were produced by 11 -13 grade students from both the US and France and were collected over a five-year period. The students were asked to create argumentative texts in which they explored questions about social issues after having read various (full or excerpted pieces of) published texts on these issues. The texts produced by the ...

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A great deal of time and resources are invested throughout Canada to encourage students learn French as a second official language through variety programs (core French, intensive immersion programs). Little is known, however, about the impact these efforts once learners complete their high school studies. This paper reports on longitudinal qualitative case studies two registered within Canadia...

Jean-Baptiste Bélanger (1790–1874) worked as a hydraulic engineer at the beginning of his career. He developed the backwater equation to calculate the freesurface profile of gradually varied, steady open channel flow. He also introduced the concept of critical flow and the numerical technique called the direct step method. Later, as an academic staff member at the leading French engineering sch...

Lillian1 was first brought to the Psychological Clinic by her two aunts because of backwardness in school and social non-conformity. She was an unusually attractive girl, nineteen years of age, with good color, regular girlish features and a naive manner which always impressed people favorably. She was attending a Philadelphia high school, nominally doing second-year work, but in reality doing ...