Readings in L2 Acquisition of German

[Raquel Sanchez]

Agar, Michael (1997).  The Biculture in Bilingual.  In N. Coupland & A
Jaworski (Eds.) Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook (pp. 464-
471).

Agar uses the example of his own experience as an English speaker learning
German in Austria to illustrate the cultural aspects of developing L2
communicative competence.  He doesn't address syntax or morphology in this
piece, but he might in other writings.


Raquel Sanchez
Stanford University School of Education
(650) 724-5490
raq at stanford.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon Sauro
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:32 AM
To: edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Subject: Readings in L2 Acquisition of German

I would appreciate any advice members of the list might have in directing
me toward SLA literature that specifically deals with the acquisition of
German.  Though I am interested in studies which address English
speakers' acquisition of German, I am open to any literature which sheds
light on issues of L2 acquisition of German syntax and morphology.  For
example, I would be interested in finding studies similar to those
reported by Bardovi-Harlig (2000) which looked at tense and aspect in
English.

I would also appreciate if anyone could pass on the names of German
language sources which address these issues as I would also like to look
into work being published outside mainstream English language journals in
SLA.

Shannon Sauro