EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO LEARN FRENCH GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN AN ALLOGLOT CONTEXT: A CASE STUDY OF YOUNG NOVICE LEARNERS IN SAMARAHAN
| dc.contributor.author | MOHD AMALULARIFIN BIN SAMSUDIN | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-10-14T01:14:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | Learning grammatical gender, especially of a foreign language in an alloglot context, is a difficult task. Grammatical gender acquisition process is in parallel to lexical acquisition (Boloh, Escudier, Royer, & Ibernon, 2012), and the recall of the latter is a problem that every language learner face, resulting to problems of grammatical gender recall (Waring, 2002, in Amoli & Karbalaei, 2012). Multiple studies have identified the effectiveness of visual mnemonic, color coding, and cue strategies in helping language learners acquire and recall foreign language grammatical gender in alloglot contexts. Despite that, the studies were done for adult learners for non-French languages and does not look into learners’ engagement learning the languages grammatical gender using the mentioned strategies. This study thus investigates the effectiveness of each learning strategies to help young novice French language learners learning French grammatical gender in local context and also learners’ engagement using each learning strategies to learn French grammatical gender. Novice French language learners from a national secondary school in Samarahan was recruited to fulfill the objectives of this study. Using a mixed-method research method, the learning strategies effectiveness was made accessible via posttests, and leaners’ engagement was accessible through open-ended questionnaire and group interviews. Despite the use of the strategies being equally effective to learn French grammatical gender, learners’ learning engagement was found to be different for each strategy. The findings of this study could provide implications for foreign language learning and teaching, specifically for learning French grammatical concepts in Malaysian context. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarhub.unimas.my/handle/123456789/3003 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.publisher | UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development | |
| dc.subject | learning strategy, grammatical gender, alloglot context, memory | |
| dc.title | EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO LEARN FRENCH GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN AN ALLOGLOT CONTEXT: A CASE STUDY OF YOUNG NOVICE LEARNERS IN SAMARAHAN | |
| dc.type | Masters |