Montreal high school students studying French as a second language completed a battery of tests including measures of linguistic aptitude. verbal intelligence, and various attitudinal and motivational characteristics. Analysis of the intercorrelations of these tests yielded two orthogonal factors equally related to ratings of achievement in French: a linguistic aptitude and a "motivational" fac...

French organic chemistry had a strong nationalistic bent in the immediate aftermath to World War II. It continued to bask in the glow of the pre-World War I Nobel prize awarded jointly in 1912 to Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier. In addition, the influence of the two mandarins then in power, Charles Prévost at the Sorbonne and Albert Kirrmann, a Dean in Strasbourg who would be called upon as v...

This article examines the politics of midwifery and the persecution of untitled female assistants in childbirth in early republican Peru. A close reading of late colonial publications and the works of Benita Paulina Cadeau Fessel, a French obstetriz director of a midwifery school in Lima, demonstrates both trans-Atlantic and local influences in the campaign against untitled midwives. Cadeau Fes...

1 UMR 7619 Sisyphe, Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France 2 French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France 3 BRGM, French Geological Survey, Orléans, France 4 Department of Mining and Metallurgy, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran 5 Institute of Geophysics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Suisse 6 UMR 6269 HydrASA, ENSIP, Université de Poitiers, Poiti...

The development of anti-diphtheria serotherapy at the Institut Pasteur immediately follows the crisis known as the Pasteur-Koch debate. Research on diphtheria in Paris is indicative of the importance granted by Pasteurian scientists to Koch's school criticisms. After 1887, relations between French and German bacteriologists become more relaxed. A scientific and social network develops between t...

Abstract A second language can be learned inside and outside the classroom. In this study we investigated English French vocabulary knowledge of 110 Dutch-speaking children (age 10–12), who received 100 hours instruction in French, whereas their contact with came from out-of-school exposure only. We examined role individual differences (out-of-school gender) word-related variables (cognateness,...

Musique Lab 2 is the follow-up development of a software suite, first designed in 1999 with high school music teachers, for interactive music manipulations based on MIDI and currently used in more than 2000 classrooms. This second generation, intended both for high schools and conservatories has been commissioned by French Ministry of Education and French Ministry of Culture. Musique Lab 2 can ...

I f we want to produce good French teachers in schools, should we require them to learn Latin in college but not French? After all, Latin is the mother language of French and is linguistically more complex than French; by mastering a more complex language teachers could enhance their understanding of the French they already know from their school days. To correlate their knowledge of French wit...