Acquisition of third languages in immersion education

[Jeff MacSwan]

Alison,

Kellie Rolstad wrote a dissertation on the progress of Spanish and Tagalog
speakers who had been placed in a Korean-English two-way immersion program.
Her focus was on academic and psychosocial variables, less on language
acquisition, but you may nonetheless find her work of interest.  The
dissertation is on the web at

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/grads/rolstad/diss.html

And an article version presenting some of the data is available in the
Bilingual Research Journal, online at

http://brj.asu.edu/archives/

Good luck.

Jeff


On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Alison Henry wrote:

> I would be grateful if anyone can suggest references to recent work on
> the acquisition of a 'third' language by children in an immersion
> setting - this is on behalf of a student who is undertaking research on
> the acquisition of French as a 'foreign language' by children with L1
> English who are attending an Irish immersion school and being taught
> French through the medium of Irish, and is interested in finding studies
> which have been undertaken in other immersion settings, particularly
> work which might not be readily accessible through the usual
> bibliographic sources.
> Alison Henry
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