Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education : a study on generic determiner phrases in L2 German and L2 French / Nadine Kolb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolb, Nadine, author.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Immersion method (Language teaching).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Other Title:

Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional empirical study investigates the syntax-semantics interface in child second language German and French. The author discusses variables such as crosslinguistic influence, the complexity of the learning tasks, cognitive maturity and the learning context. By focusing on child second language acquisition in immersion education, this book not only substantially contributes to the field of second language acquisition but also offers important insights into teaching in an immersion context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Multilingualism - child second language acquisition - second language development - immersion education - transfer - crosslinguistic influence - syntax-semantics interface - morpho-syntax - L2 German - L2 French - L1 English - generic reference - individual variation - determiner phrase - cross-sectional.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, viewed May 9, 2023).