TY - BOOK AU - Hilton,Heather AU - Lenart,Ewa AU - Zoghlami,Nawel TI - Listening and Speaking by Primary School Learners of L2 English PY - 2016///. N1 - 14 N2 - A study focusing on two groups of French children (6 and 8 years old) during their first year learning English as a foreign language produced some unexpected results in measure of English listening and speaking skill. Six-year-olds performed as well in L2 listening as the eight-year-olds (which they do not in L1), but they are less productive (in numbers and length of utterances produced in a speaking task). There is an interesting disparity at the individual level in listening and speaking skillsĀ : the most productive children are not the best at listening, and vice versa. The article investigates emergent listening and production skill in L2 English, with a focus on this listening-speaking discrepancy UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-linguistique-appliquee-2016-2-page-65?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -