Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured… read more
Study abroad can be seen as a journey through time and space, affording narratives. This chapter focuses on the study of narratives and questions of identity for study abroad research. Looking first at narrative inquiry in general, it then considers the use of narratives in second language… read more
This research note presents a short synopsis of the recently established project ‘Study Abroad Research in European Perspective’ (SAREP), funded in 2016–2020 by the European agency COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology). The report outlines the aims and objectives of SAREP and gives… read more
This paper looks at the distribution of parce que (subordinating and non-subordinating because) in native and non-native (students at a UK university) speakers of French. In both first and second language data, the use of parce que sequences is found to vary quantitatively from one type of speech… read more
