English in Europe

The Acquisition of a Third Language
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85359-479-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cenoz, Jasone

Jessner, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner: Introduction

Part I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

1 Charlotte Hoffmann: The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe

2 Allan R. James: English as a European Lingua Franca: Current Realities and Existing Dichotomies

Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition

3 Jasone Cenoz: Research on Multilingual Acquisition

4 Jim Cummins: Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to Critiques of the Conversational/academic Language Distinction

5 Philip Herdina and Ulrike Jessner: The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition

Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives

6 Istvan Kecskés and Tunde Papp: Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production

7 Ute Schönpflug: Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A Contribution to the Organisation of the Trilingual Speaker’s Lexicon

8 Christine Bouvy: Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer

Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives

9 Carmen Muñoz: Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia

10 David Lasagabaster: Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System

11 Siv Björklund and Irmeli Suni: The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on Language Teaching and Language Relations

12 Jehannes Ytsma: Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland

13 Tatiana Iatcu: Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals

Conclusion

14 Ulrike Jessner and Jasone Cenoz: Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Educational Aspects of Learning English as a Third Language in Europe

The Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jessner, Ulrike
Jessner, Ulrike is Professor at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the University of Pannonia, Veszprem (Hungary) where she acts as founding member of the International Doctoral School of Multilingualism. She has published widely in the field of multilingualism with a special focus on the acquisition of English in multilingual contexts. She is the co-author of A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism (with Philip Herdina in 2002) which pioneered DSCT in language acquisition research.

Cenoz, Jasone
Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, and a member of the advisory committee of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism and multilingualism. She has published extensively and has presented her work at numerous international conferences and seminars.

Jasone Cenoz is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain).  Her publications include Beyond Bilingualism: Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, co-edited with Fred Genesee (Multilingual Matters 1998).

Ulrike Jessner is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Her publications include A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Changing Perspectives in Psycholinguistics, co-authored with Philip Herdina  (Multilingual Matters, forthcoming in 2000).