Magalie Desgrippes

• Master
• Assistante diplômée at University of Fribourg

Ce numéro spécial est issu d'une journée d'études consacrée à la plurilittératie (multiliteracy) dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangères à l'intérieur et hors du contexte scolaire (Brugg, Argovie, Suisse, 25 janvier 2019). La littératie est une notion complexe, relativement récente dans le monde francophone et fortement débattue. Conjuguée à ce...

Writing different types of texts is part of the fundamental literacy skills children develop in school. An argument in favor of heritage language courses is that they might contribute to this development since the transfer of literacy skills are theorized to occur between the children's languages. In this study, we investigate the transfer of two k...

Since Berlin and Kay (1969) stipulated a universal evolutionary sequence of color categories in languages, the question of what happens to individual categorization of colors during a lifetime is legitimate. Individuals might experience the emergence of several new terms over a lifetime, whether these terms become established in their language or n...

In the construction and interpretation of the language situation in German-speaking Switzerland, the actors in the Swiss language policy debate assign different functions to the use of dialects in German-speaking territory; the use of dialect can be viewed as an authentic expression of local identity, or as a threat to peace between Swiss citizens....

In this contribution the notions of transfer and interdependence hypothesis are discussed in the light of the results of a longitudinal study with migrant Portuguese children in Switzerland. The analysis of their argumentative written productions from the two first data collections shows an interesting pattern of skills’ transfer: the skills acquir...

In this contribution the notions of transfer and interdependence hypothesis are discussed in the light of the results of a longitudinal study with migrant Portuguese children in Switzerland. The analysis of their argumentative written productions from the two first data collections shows an interesting pattern of skills' transfer: the skills acquir...

Anthropologists, psychologists and linguists generally consider that each language has a fairly uniform color system and that the systems of most European languages are all at the end of the same evolution and too close to each other to be of interest. Starting from the simple observation that the traffic light color called orange in French is call...