Cultural Migrants and Optimal Language Acquisition /

Cultural Migrants and Optimal Language Acquisition / / ed. by Fanny Forsberg Lundell, Inge Bartning.

This volume investigates cultural migrants: people who, from their own free will, move to another country because of their interest in the target language and culture. Chapters include studies on cultural migrants acquiring French, Italian, Spanish and English and consider linguistic, psycholinguist...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Bardel, Camilla,
Bartning, Inge,
Dewaele, Jean-Marc,
Diskin, Chloé,
Edmonds, Amanda,
Erman, Britt,
Granena, Gisela,
Gudmundson, Anna,
Guesle-Coquelet, Catherine,
Hammer, Kate,
Lewis, Margareta,
Lundell, Fanny Forsberg,
Regan, Vera,
HerausgeberIn:
Bartning, Inge,
Forsberg Lundell, Fanny,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Second Language Acquisition
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Cultural Migrants: Introducing a New Concept in SLA Research
  • Part 1: Focus on Cultural Migrants
  • 1. Beyond Native-like? The Lexical Profile of a Cultural Migrant in Italy
  • 2. Successful Profiles in High-level L2 French - 'c'est un choix de vie'
  • 3. Reported Use and Perception of tu and vous Among Less Integrated and Highly Integrated Anglophone Cultural Migrants in France
  • 4. L2 English Vocabulary in a Long-residency Swedish Group Compared to a Group of English Native Speakers
  • Part 2: Culture as a Decisive Factor in L2 Attainment
  • 5. Migratory Experience and Second Language Acquisition Among Polish and Chinese Migrants in Dublin, Ireland
  • 6. Acculturation as the Key to the Ultimate Attainment? The Case of Polish-English Bilinguals in the UK
  • 7. The Role of Sociopsychological Factors in Long-term L2 Achievement of L1 Chinese Learners of L2 Spanish
  • Concluding Chapter: What Can SLA Learn From Cultural Migrants?
  • Index

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