Acquisition of third languages in immersion education

[Cenoz Iragui Jasone]

Alison,

There are several chapters on the acquisition of English as a third
language in bilingual education in the book ( to be published in April
2000) 'English in Europe: the acquisition of a third language' (editors:
Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner) Multilingual Matters ISBN 1-85359-480-6
(hbk), ISBN 1-85359-479-2 (pbk):

Catalan-Spanish + English; by Carmen Munoz
Basque-Spanish + English, by David Lasagabaster
Finnish, Swedish + English; by Siv Bjorklund and Irmely Suni
Frisian, Dutch + English; by Jehannes Ytsma
Hungarian, Romanian + English by Tatiana Iatcu

Some other publications on L3 acquisition in the Basque Country you may
already know about are:

-Cenoz, J. (1998) Multilingual education in the Basque Country. In J.
Cenoz & F. Genesee 'Beyond Bilingualism: Multilingualism and Multilingual
Education. Multilingual Matters.
-Cenoz, J. & Valencia, J. (1994) Additive trilingualism: Evidence from
the Basque Country. Applied Psycholinguistics 15: 195-207.
-Lasagabaster, D. (1998) The threshold hypothesis applied to three
languages in cotnact at school. International Journal of Bilingual
Education and Bilingualism Vol 1: 119-133.


You could also find some references to interesting work in Arnay, J. &
Artigal, J.M. (eds) (1998) Immersion programs: A European perspective.
Barcelona: European Institute of Immersion.

An article on the acquisition of English by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals by
Cristina Sanz is going to appear in Applied Psycholinguistics.

The 'International Conference on Third language acquisition and
trilingualism' took place in Innsbruck last September and the next
conference will be in the Netherlands in September 2001. You can have a
look at the program of the 1999 conference on the Web
http://anglistik.uibk.ac.at/~uj/
A Web page on L3 acquisition will be working very shortly. This is the
address:
http://www.spz.tu-darmstadt.de/projekt_L3

Jasone Cenoz