RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 van Tessel, Evi A1 Bril, Marco YR 2021 T1 French as a foreign language in the Netherlands: An L2 or an L3? A study on crosslinguistic influences from Dutch and English JF Linguistics in the Netherlands VO 38 IS 1 SP 114 OP 127 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00056.tes PB John Benjamins SN 0929-7332, AB Abstract

Exposure to English is more extensive in today’s society than to French. In this study we investigated crosslinguistic influences from Dutch and/or English to language performances in French as a foreign language, while controlling for language proficiency in French, English and Dutch, and exposure to English.

We tested Dutch learners of French (n = 65) with respect to the acceptability of reduced relative clauses and attachment preferences in full relative clauses. The results showed crosslinguistic influence in the acceptability task and the preference task from English and Dutch respectively. Furthermore, language proficiency in English seems to affect attachment preferences in French. We concluded that these findings support the Linguistic Proximity Model (Westergaard et al. 2017) and that French in Dutch secondary education might be a third language, instead of a second language., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/avt.00056.tes