Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual language learning / edited by Gessica De Angelis, Ulrike Jessner, Marijana Kresic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Angelis, Gessica, 1965- editor.

Jessner, Ulrike, editor.

Kresic, Marijana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Bilingual.

Intercultural communciation--Cross cultural studies.

Intercultural communciation.

Language acquisition--Cross cultural studies.

Language acquisition.

Multicultural education--Cross-cultural studies.

Multicultural education.

Multilingualism--Study and teaching.

Multilingualism.

Second language acquisition--Social aspects.

Second language acquisition.

Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Which strategies do multilingual learners use when confronted with languages they don't yet know? Which factors are involved in activating prior linguistic knowledge in multilingual learning? This v. offers valuable insights into recent research in multilingualism, crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction. Experts in the field examine the role of background languages in multilingual learning. All the chapters point to the heart of the question of what the 'multilingual mind' is. Does learning one language actually help you learn another, and if so, why? This volume looks at languages and scenarios beyond English as a second language - Italian, Gealic, Dutch and German, amongst others, are covered, as well as instances of third and additional language learning. Research into crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction essentially contributes to our understanding of how language learning works when there are three or more languages in contact."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction

Gessica De Angelis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland);

Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Marijana Kresic (University of Zadar, Croatia)

2. Perceptual Training of Novel Speech Contrasts in L3 Acquisition: The Effect of Multilingual Benefit

Divya Verma Gogoi, James D. Harnsberger and Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida, USA)

3. The Lexicon-Syntax Interfacein 3L1 acquisition: An Experimental Investigation of the Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction

Megan Devlin, Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster, Ireland)

4. Can a Background Language Alter the Path of Acquisition of Verb Placement in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study

Laura Sánchez (University of Barcelona, Spain)

5. Item-related determinants of cognate guessing in multilinguals

Jan Vanhove and Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

6. Developing Cognitive Strategies through Pluralistic approaches

Rebecca Dahm (Université de Limoges, France)

7. "If you know Amharic you can read this": Emergent literacy in multilingual pre-reading children

Anat Stavans (Beit Berl College and Research Institute for Innovation in Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)

8. Does German help speakers of Dutch to understand written and spoken Danish words? - The role of second language knowledge in decoding an unknown but related language

Femke Swarte, Anja Schüppert and Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

9. Is A2 in German better than B2 in French when reading Danish? The role of prior language knowledge when faced with an unknown language

Karolina Mieszkowska and Agnieszka Otwinowska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

10. Do learners transfer from the language they perceive as most closely related to the L3? The role of psychotypology for lexical and grammatical cross-linguistic influence in French L3

Christina Lindqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden)

11. Epilogue

De Angelis, Jessner, Kresic

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474235860

1474235867

9781474235884

1474235883

9781474235877

1474235875

OCLC:

927140831