Cognate Vocabulary in Language Acquisition and Use : : Attitudes, Awareness, Activation / / Agnieszka Otwinowska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Otwinowska, Agnieszka,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by bilingual and multilingual learners/users of English. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data to explain which factors affect a learner's awareness of cognates, how adult learners can benefit from raised awareness and whether cognate vocabulary can be used with younger learners as a motivational strategy. The work shows how cognate vocabulary can be examined from a range of methodological perspectives and provides considerable insights into crosslinguistic influences in language learning. While the focus of the studies is Polish-English cognates, the research will be of interest to anyone teaching learners of different language constellations, levels, ages and backgrounds.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Bilingual and Multilingual Language Use -- 1. Language Users and Language Use -- 2. Attitudes Towards Bilingual and Multilingual Language Use: The Western and Central-European Perspective -- Part 2: Defining Lexical Crosslinguistic Similarity -- 3. Where Does Crosslinguistic Similarity Come From? -- 4. Crosslinguistic Lexical Similarity -- Part 3: Lexical Crosslinguistic Similarity in Use -- 5. Crosslinguistic Similarity and Crosslinguistic Influences -- 6. Cognate Vocabulary in Language Processing -- 7. Cognate Vocabulary in Second Language Acquisition -- 8. Language-related Factors in Lexical CLI -- 9. Learner-related Factors Affecting Lexical CLI -- 10. Reliance on Lexical CLI as a Strategic Behaviour -- Part 4: Investigating Lexical Crosslinguistic Similarity in Language Learning -- 11. Introduction: Researching the Awareness of Cognates in Polish Learners of English -- 12. Investigating the Awareness of Cognate Vocabulary: Polish Adult Learners of English -- 13. Using Cognates as a Vocabulary Learning Strategy: Polish Adult Learners of English -- 14. Awareness of Cognates as a Motivational Strategy: The Age Factor -- 15. Towards Plurilingual Language Teaching with -- References -- Index