Multilingualism and very young learners : an analysis of pragmatic awareness and language attitudes / Laura Portolés Falomir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portolés Falomir, Laura, author.

Series:

Trends in applied linguistics ; Volume 12.

Trends in Applied Linguistics, 1868-6362 ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with early multilingual acquisition from a holistic, dynamic, and multilingual perspective. It focuses on the analysis of pragmatic awareness and language attitudes of consecutive multilingual children in relation to other variables, such as the linguistic model or the age factor. This volume makes an important contribution to the field, providing evidence for the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism proposed by Herdina and Jessner.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

List of tables

List of figures

Codes used throughout the study

Introduction

Chapter 1. Multilingualism

Chapter 2. Multilingual pragmatic development in children

Chapter 3. Language attitudes

Chapter 4. Motivation for the present study

Chapter 5. Results and discussion

Chapter 6. Conclusion

References

Appendices

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 10, 2015).

ISBN:

9781501500022

1501500023

9781501500053

1501500058

OCLC:

912323232