Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education

Nadine Kolb

ISBN 10: 3631817126 / ISBN 13: 9783631817124

Editore: Peter Lang Jul 2022, 2022

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Neuware -Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional empirical study herein investigates the syntax-semantics interface in English speaking children acquiring German and French as second languages. The author discusses variables such as crosslinguistic influence, the complexity of the learning tasks, cognitive maturity and the learning context. By focusing on child second language acquisition in immersion education, this book not only substantially contributes to the field of second language acquisition but also offers important insights into teaching in an immersion context. 298 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education
• Editore: Peter Lang Jul 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3631817126
• ISBN 13: 9783631817124
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 153 A x 21 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 21 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 500 grammi

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Riassunto

Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional empirical study herein investigates the syntax-semantics interface in English speaking children acquiring German and French as second languages. The author discusses variables such as crosslinguistic influence, the complexity of the learning tasks, cognitive maturity and the learning context. By focusing on child second language acquisition in immersion education, this book not only substantially contributes to the field of second language acquisition but also offers important insights into teaching in an immersion context.

Informazioni sull?autore

Nadine Kolb holds a PhD degree in English linguistics from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is an Associate Professor in English language in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the AcqVA Aurora Center at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research focuses on child second and third language acquisition, heritage language bilingualism and multilingual education.