This book emerges as a response to the increasing use of English as a lingua franca in the multilingual European context. It provides an up-to-date overview of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of research on third language acquisition by focusing on English as a third language.
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Höhe: 210 mm
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Dicke: 21 mm
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978-1-85359-480-9 (9781853594809)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jasone Cenoz is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her publications include Beyond Bilingualism: Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, co-edited with Fred Genesee (Multilingual Matters 1998).
Ulrike Jessner is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Her publications include A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Changing Perspectives in Psycholinguistics, co-authored with Philip Herdina (Multilingual Matters, forthcoming in 2000).
Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner: Introduction
Part I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
1 Charlotte Hoffmann: The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe
2 Allan R. James: English as a European Lingua Franca: Current Realities and Existing Dichotomies
Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition
3 Jasone Cenoz: Research on Multilingual Acquisition
4 Jim Cummins: Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to Critiques of the Conversational/academic Language Distinction
5 Philip Herdina and Ulrike Jessner: The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition
Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
6 Istvan Kecskes and Tunde Papp: Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production
7 Ute Schoenpflug: Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A Contribution to the Organisation of the Trilingual Speaker's Lexicon
8 Christine Bouvy: Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer
Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives
9 Carmen Munoz: Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia
10 David Lasagabaster: Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System
11 Siv Bjoerklund and Irmeli Suni: The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on Language Teaching and Language Relations
12 Jehannes Ytsma: Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland
13 Tatiana Iatcu: Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals
Conclusion
14 Ulrike Jessner and Jasone Cenoz: Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Educational Aspects of Learning English as a Third Language in Europe
The Contributors
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