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Cultural Migrants and Optimal Language Acquisition

Cultural Migrants and Optimal Language Acquisition

Forsberg Lundell, Fanny
Bartning, Inge

Paperback

Series: Second Language Acquisition, Book 91

General ReferenceLinguisticsImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1783094028
ISBN13: 9781783094028
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Aug 4 2015
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This volume investigates cultural migrants: people who, from their own free will, move to another country because of their interest in the target language and culture. Chapters include studies on cultural migrants acquiring French, Italian, Spanish and English and consider linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of language acquisition. Cultural migrants have social and psychological advantages when acquiring a second language as adults, and the study of their linguistic knowledge and production increases our understanding of the possibilities and limits of L2 ultimate attainment. The work thus fills a gap in our understanding of high-level proficiency and will be of interest to researchers working in the field of SLA, as well as to social scientists studying the relationship between language, culture and integration.

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