English in Europe : : The Acquisition of a Third Language / / ed. by Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Bjorklund, Siv,; Bouvy, Christine,; Cenoz, Jasone,; Cummins, Jim,
• HerausgeberIn: Cenoz, Jasone,; Jessner, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives --; 1 The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe --; 2 English as a European Lingua Franca: Current realities and existing dichotomies --; Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition --; 3 Research on Multilingual Acquisition --; 4 Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/academic language distinction --; 5 The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition --; Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives --; 6 Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production --; 7 Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A contribution to the organisation of the trilingual speaker's lexicon --; 8 Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer --; Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives --; 9 Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia --; 10 Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System --; 11 The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on language teaching and language relations --; 12 Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland --; 13 Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals --; Conclusion --; 14 Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of learning English as a third language in Europe --; The Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800417991; 9783111024721
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner.

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.