Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education: A Study on Generic Determiner Phrases in L2 German and L2 French (Inquiries in Language ... und Fremdsprachendidaktik, 32) - Hardcover

Kolb, Nadine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631817126 ISBN 13: 9783631817124

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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 Skłodowska-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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631817126
• ISBN 13: 9783631817124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298