Attitudes and language use of international exchange students during their stay in Orléans: the example of discourse markers in L2 French

The report presents the main issues, experimental details and first results of the project “Attitudes and language use of international students during their stay in Orléans: the example of discourse markers in L2” (ESLO-L2), realized at the host laboratory “Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique” (LLL) between March and July 2023. The aim of the project was to apply the methodology of the corpus of oral French “Enquête SocioLinguistique à Orléans” (ESLO), conceived as a “city’s sound portrait” to the group of foreign exchange students at the University of Orléans. The research interest of the project was aimed at the questions of how the students’ perception of the city, its inhabitants and the French language changes during the first 5-6 months of their stay in Orléans and how the students’ language use in oral interaction develops during this period. The latter will be examined through the example of discourse marker use.