English in Europe
eBook - PDF

English in Europe

The Acquisition of a Third Language

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

English in Europe

The Acquisition of a Third Language

About this book

This book emerges as a response to the increasing use of English as a lingua franca in the multilingual European context. It provides an up-to-date overview of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of research on third language acquisition by focusing on English as a third language.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
  4. 1 The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe
  5. 2 English as a European Lingua Franca: Current realities and existing dichotomies
  6. Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition
  7. 3 Research on Multilingual Acquisition
  8. 4 Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/academic language distinction
  9. 5 The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition
  10. Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
  11. 6 Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production
  12. 7 Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A contribution to the organisation of the trilingual speaker's lexicon
  13. 8 Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer
  14. Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives
  15. 9 Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia
  16. 10 Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System
  17. 11 The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on language teaching and language relations
  18. 12 Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland
  19. 13 Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals
  20. Conclusion
  21. 14 Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of learning English as a third language in Europe
  22. The Contributors
  23. Index