The acquisition of intensifying constructions in Dutch and English by French-speaking CLIL and non-CLIL students

From a constructional perspective, foreign language acquisition is presumed to be more complex than L1 acquisition because of the competition between the specific constructions of the foreign language with the L1 constructions, which can lead to “constructional transfer”. Applying the constructional transfer hypothesis to the acquisition of intensifying constructions in English and in Dutch by Belgian French-speaking secondary school pupils, we expect to find i) underuse of typical Germanic means of intensification such as elative compounds and ii) overuse of syntactic constructions frequently... Mehr ...