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Cultural Migrants and Optimal Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Fanny Forsberg Lundell (editor); Inge Bartning (editor)


Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Leaves
240
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This volume studies language acquisition among cultural migrants. The chapters investigate different aspects of their linguistic knowledge and production and make an important contribution to our understanding of the possibilities and limits of L2 ultimate attainment.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents
Contributors
Cultural Migrants: Introducing a New Concept in SLA Research
Part 1: Focus on Cultural Migrants
1. Beyond Native-like? The Lexical Profile of a Cultural Migrant in Italy
2. Successful Profiles in High-level L2 French – β€˜c’est un choix de vie’
3. Reported Use and Perception of tu and vous Among Less Integrated and Highly Integrated Anglophone Cultural Migrants in France
4. L2 English Vocabulary in a Long-residency Swedish Group Compared to a Group of English Native Speakers
Part 2: Culture as a Decisive Factor in L2 Attainment
5. Migratory Experience and Second Language Acquisition Among Polish and Chinese Migrants in Dublin, Ireland
6. Acculturation as the Key to the Ultimate Attainment? The Case of Polish-English Bilinguals in the UK
7. The Role of Sociopsychological Factors in Long-term L2 Achievement of L1 Chinese Learners of L2 Spanish
Concluding Chapter: What Can SLA Learn From Cultural Migrants?
Index


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