[lg policy] book notice: Second Dialect Acquisition

[Harold Schiffman]

Second Dialect Acquisition
Published: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708092/?site_locale=en_GB

Author: Jeff Siegel

Abstract:

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, the first to focus
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.

Table of 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.


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                            Language Acquisition
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng )

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