Teaching French as a Third Language: Theoretical Aspects and a Web-based Course Reducing the Negative Transfer of Selected Verbal Constructions From English to French

Abstract

The paper revolves around the problem of cross-linguistic influence in multilingual learners with a particular focus on the issue of teaching French as a third language. The distance learning course described in the article has been created in order to reduce the number of mistakes resulting from negative transfer and committed by learners of French and English, the latter being their dominant foreign language.