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Portrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Carmen Pérez Vidal received her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK, and her PhD in English linguistics from the University of Barcelona (Spain). She is Associate Professor in English Linguistics and Language Acquisition at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), where she is Vicerector of Languages and coordinator of the ALLENCAM and SALA projects. Her research interests and recent publications deal with bilingual, second and foreign language acquisition in different contexts of learning: natural, formal, immersion and stay abroad. She has specialised in writing and the age factor, content and language integrated learning and input effects. Maria Juan-Garau is Associate Professor in English and Vicedean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), where she currently teaches courses in Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition research methods. She has also taught EFL at secondary and tertiary level and has been involved in language teacher education. Her research interests and publications include bilingual first language acquisition, with a focus on the pragmatic aspects of mixing, the linguistic analysis of specialized language corpora, and the influence of learning context in foreign language acquisition, with special attention to the effects of study abroad. Aurora Bel is Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). She currently teaches Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics. Her interests comprise the acquisition of Spanish and Catalan as first and second languages in multilingual environments, particularly the acquisition of morphosyntax and semantics. Her latest publications include the acquisition of agreement and the study of the knowledge and factors that explain the use of grammatical subjects by different populations of learners (L1, L2). Recently she is also focusing on the abnormal development of language and the language of translators. Klappentext This book examines the main issues in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition through children and youngsters growing up in today's multicultural Spain. The studies cover phonetics, grammar and pragmatics, code mixing, parental strategies, bilingual twins, SLI bilingualism, literacy and stay abroad effects. ...

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Authors Carmen P¿z-Vidal
Assisted by Aurora Bel (Editor), Maria Juan-Garau (Editor), Carmen P?rez-Vidal (Editor), Carmen Perez-Vidal (Editor), Carmen Pérez-Vidal (Editor)
Publisher Multilingual Matters
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 14.11.2007
 
EAN 9781847690234
ISBN 978-1-84769-023-4
No. of pages 280
Series Child Language and Child Devel
Child Language and Child Devel
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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