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English in Europe today : sociocultural and educational perspectives / edited by Annick De Houwer, Antje Wilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 8.
- AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--Europe.
- English language.
- English language--Europe.
- English language--Influence on foreign languages.
- Languages in contact.
- Physical Description:
- x, 170 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This chapter investigates to what extent the process of second language acquisition is influenced by amount and type of input. After a brief description of the place of English in the lives of secondary school students in the Netherlands, the article reports on a semi-longitudinal study comparing students whose out-of-school contact with English is quite limited and a group of students who have regular access to English popular media. Both groups were tested in a high-input condition (bilingual education) and in a low-input condition (monolingual education). The findings show a complex relation between the role of out-of-school and in-school input and developing proficiency that can only be discovered through a semi-longitudinal approach.
- Contents:
- The dynamics of English in a multilingual Europe / Antje Wilton and Annick De Houwer
- The increasing role of English in Basque education / Jasone Cenoz
- English language testing: A case study of test development in Greece / Susan Gass and Daniel Reed
- When comprehension is crucial: Using English as a medium of instruction at a German university / Annelie Knapp
- English as a l and the Standard English misunderstanding / Kurt Kohn
- The early acquisition of English as a second language: The case of young Chinese learners of English in Britain / Li Wei
- The more languages, the more English A Dutch perspective / Jacomine Nortier
- Conceptualizing English for a multilingual Europe / Barbara Seidlhofer
- English as a foreign language: The role of out-of-school language input / Marjolijn Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Eva van Rein.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612976810
- 9781282976818
- 1282976818
- 9789027287342
- 9027287341
- OCLC:
- 703435403
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