31.3780, Books: Third language acquisition: Bardel, Sánchez (eds.)

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Subject: 31.3780, Books: Third language acquisition: Bardel, Sánchez (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:27:03
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Third language acquisition: Bardel, Sánchez (eds.)

Title: Third language acquisition 
Subtitle: Age, proficiency and multilingualism 
Series Title: EuroSLA Studies  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/268 

Editor: Camilla Bardel
Editor: Laura Sánchez

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102808 Pages: 276 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access

Abstract:

This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a
research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism
that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the
role that their multilingual background plays in the process of language
learning. The volume points out some current directions in this particular
research area with a number of studies that reveal the complexity of
multilingual language learning and its typical variation and dynamics.

The eight studies gathered in the book represent a wide range of theoretical
positions and offer empirical evidence from learners belonging to different
age groups, and with varying levels of proficiency in the target language, as
well as in other non-native languages belonging to the learner’s repertoire.
Diverse linguistic phenomena and language combinations are viewed from a
perspective where all previously acquired languages have a potential role to
play in the process of learning a new language.

In the six empirical studies, contexts of language learning in school or at
university level constitute the main outlet for data collection. These studies
involve several language backgrounds and language combinations and focus on
various linguistic features. The specific target languages in the empirical
studies are English, French and Italian.

The volume also includes two theoretical chapters. The first one
conceptualizes and describes the different types of multilingual language
learning investigated in the volume: i) third or additional language learning
by learners who are bilinguals from an early age, and ii) third or additional
language learning by people who have previous experience of one or more
non-native languages learned after the critical period. In particular, issues
related to the roles played by age and proficiency in multilingual acquisition
are discussed. The other theoretical chapter conceptualizes the grammatical
category of aspect, reviewing previous studies on second and third language
acquisition of aspect. Different models for L3 learning and their relevance
and implications for representations of aspect and for potential differences
in the processing of second and third language acquisition are also examined
in this chapter.

As a whole, the book presents current research into third or additional
language learning by young learners or adults, considering some of the most
important factors for the complex process of multilingual language learning:
the age of onset of the additional language and that of previously acquired
languages, social and affective factors, instruction, language proficiency and
literacy, the typology of the background languages and the role they play in
shaping syntax, lexicon, and other components of a L3.

The idea for this book emanates from the symposium Multilingualism, language
proficiency and age, organized by Camilla Bardel and Laura Sánchez at
Stockholm University, Department of Language Education, in December 2016.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=149793

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