English in Europe : the acquisition of a third language / edited by Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cenoz, Jasone.

Jessner, Ulrike.

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 19.

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching--Europe.

Languages in contact--Europe.

Languages in contact.

English language--Study and teaching.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2000]

Contents:

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 / Charlotte Hoffmann 1

2 English as a European Lingua Franca: Current realities and existing dichotomies / Allan R. James 22

Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition

3 Research on Multilingual Acquisition / Jasone Cenoz 39

4 Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/academic language distinction / Jim Cummins 54

5 The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition / Philip Herdina, Ulrike Jessner 84

Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives

6 Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production / Istvan Kecskes, Tunde Papp 99

7 Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A contribution to the organisation of the trilingual speaker's lexicon / Ute Schonpflug 121

8 Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer / Christine Bouvy 143

Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives

9 Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia / Carmen Munoz 157

10 Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System / David Lasagabaster 179

11 The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on language teaching and language relations / Siv Bjorklund, Irmeli Suni 198

12 Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland / Jehannes Ytsma 222

13 Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals / Tatiana Iatcu 236

14 Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of learning English as a third language in Europe / Ulrike Jessner, Jasone Cenoz 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1853594792

OCLC:

42765171