Browsing Bouvet, Eric by Issue Date
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An Investigation of Foreign Language Students' Conceptualisations of Literary Reading.
(Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 2000)This study investigates how first-year post-secondary students conceptualise and judge their strategic behaviour in relation to reading foreign language literary texts. The questionnaire used to collect data is structured ... -
Reading in a foreign language: Strategic variation between readers of differing proficiency
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2002-03)For university language students who are required to deal with literary texts for linguistic or literary purposes, there is hardly any transitional stage between short adapted expository texts, read in the early stages ... -
Flexibility and Interaction at a Distance: A Mixed-Model Environment For Language Learning
(2003-09)This article reports on the process of design and development of two language courses for university students at beginning levels of competence. Following a preliminary experience in a low-tech environment for distance ... -
Early French Migration to South Australia: Preliminary Findings on French Vignerons
(Lythrum Press, 2004)The French in Australia form a small group of immigrants in terms of overall migration figures: the 1996 census records 16 000 French-born, while there were 240 000 Italian-born, 126 000 Greek-born and 120 000 German-born ... -
First-Year Post-Secondary Students’ Attitudes Towards the Study of French: A Longitudinal Investigation
(University of Melbourne, 2004)In order to meet the expectations of language students and to maximise both the quality of learning and the commitment to it over time, a better understanding of students' attitudes and aspirations is required. There are ... -
French Migration to South Australia (1955-1971): What Alien Registration documents can tell us
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2005-08)The present article investigates the demographic characteristics of French migrants to South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. These two decades are of particular interest because during this period French migration to ... -
More than a sea change? Post-World War II French migration to South Australia. [abstract].
(2006)The proposed paper seeks to examine the contextual reasons as well as the personal motivations that spurred the French to migrate and settle in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. This study constitutes the second stage ... -
Foreign Language reading as cultural problem-solving: The intercultural stance of the reader. [abstract].
(2006)The purpose of this project is to continue my investigation of the Foreign Language (FL) reader’s problem-solving behaviour. Having examined the conditions of implementation of reading strategies associated with lexical ... -
French migration to Australia in the post WWII period: Benevolent tolerance and cautious collaboration
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2007-08)The main objective of this study is to consider the diplomatic relations between France and Australia in the three decades following World War II with a view to documenting the events that contributed to the development of ... -
Promoting migration to Australia in France in the 1960s
(Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations, 2009)Like several other European countries immediately after World War 2, France was targeted by the newly created Australian Department of Immigration as a potential source of migrants. Despite limitations imposed by the French ...