Posture verbs in French-speaking CLIL and non-CLIL learners of Dutch

Recent research on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has confirmed that CLIL learners clearly outperform non-CLIL learners (Dalton-Puffer 2011). Although lexicon has often received pride of place in CLIL research, it is striking that studies have rarely been pushed beyond the word level. This paper therefore investigates the acquisition of Dutch posture verb constructions (PVs) in French-speaking (non-)CLIL learners. As in other Germanic languages, Dutch frequently uses compulsory PVs (staan [to stand], zitten [to sit] and liggen [to lie]), whereas French resorts to neutral verbs... Mehr ...