Pfurtscheller Teaching Multilingual Children

The acquisition of English in a multilingual context
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-346-26836-5
Verlag: GRIN Verlag
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 10 Seiten

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck, language: English, abstract: This paper gives a basic overview on the subject of English learning of multilingual children. The author begins with the general development of multilingual children, especially concerning their cognitive advantages that have been gained through language acquisition. After that, the paper focuses on the comparison of third language acquisition and second language acquisition. In this chapter the author also provides a study done by various scholars that compares monolingual children to bilingual children that has to be critically reflected. The following section concentrates with the factors influencing learning English in different contexts.

A young student at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck critically analysing and examining a variety of topics including subjects about Geography, English, and the pedagogical significance of both scientific branches. Hopefully the reader of my texts can gain some insight on these three issiues and will therefore be able to understand specific topics more easily.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pfurtscheller, Romana