English in Europe : : The Acquisition of a Third Language /

English in Europe : : The Acquisition of a Third Language / / 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 la...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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