Learning and using multiple languages : current findings from research on multilingualism / edited by Maria Pilar Safont Jordà and Laura Portolés Falomir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Safont Jordà, Pilar, editor.

Falomir, Laura Portolés, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Data processing.

Multilingualism.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together the latest findings from research on multilingual language learning and use in multilingual communities. Suzanne Flynn, Håkan Ringbom and Larissa Aronin are some of the prestigious scholars who have contributed to this book. As argued by this last author in her chapter, although multilingualism has always existed, the important changes that research on this phenomenon has recently undergone, like that of adopting a multilingual perspective in its studies, should always be borne in mind. This volume considers the languages of multilingual communities, as well as the

Contents:

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""PART II""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""PART III""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7492-2

OCLC:

908262220