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Second dialect acquisition / Jeff Siegel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, Jeff, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.
- English language.
- English language--Dialects--English-speaking countries.
- Languages in contact--English-speaking countries.
- Languages in contact.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such learning different from second language acquisition (SLA), and why is it in some ways more difficult? These are some of the questions Jeff Siegel examines in this book, which focuses specifically on second dialect acquisition (SDA). Siegel surveys a wide range of studies that throw light on SDA. These concern dialects of English as well as those of other languages, including Dutch, German, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish. He also describes the individual and linguistic factors that affect SDA, such as age, social identity and language complexity. The book discusses problems faced by students who have to acquire the standard dialect without any special teaching, and presents some educational approaches that have been successful in promoting SDA in the classroom.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction; 2. Attainment in naturalistic SDA; 3. Acquiring a second dialect; 4. Differential attainment: age effects and linguistic factors; 5. Additional individual and linguistic factors; 6. The difficulty of SDA; 7. SDA in classroom contexts; 8. Educational approaches for SDA; 9. Explaining the results and taking further steps.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511788215
- 0511788215
- 0511787073
- 0511789688
- 0511777825
- OCLC:
- 663861915
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