Third or Additional Language Acquisition

von Gessica De Angelis

162 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 withing four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/multilingualism on cognitive development. The book critically examines the evidence available keeping two main questions in mind. The first is whether multilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right and, consequently, whether the distinction between Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, and Third or Additional Language Acquisition and Multilingualism is fully warranted. The second is how proficient in a non-native language learners are supposed to be before they can begin to be classified as multilingual learners in empirical research

• Reihe: Second Language Acquisition
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Psycholinguistik und Kognitive Linguistik
• ISBN: 9781847690043
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2007
• Größe: 216 x 153 mm
• Verlag: Multilingual Matters