TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nadine Kolb
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1868-386X
SN  - 9783631876404
TI  - Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education
T2  - A Study on Generic Determiner Phrases in L2 German and L2 French
DO  - 10.3726/b19621
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1177339
N2  - Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional empirical study herein investigates the syntax-semantics interface in English speaking children acquiring German and French as second languages. The author discusses variables such as crosslinguistic influence, the complexity of the learning tasks, cognitive maturity and the learning context. By focusing on child second language acquisition in immersion education, this book not only substantially contributes to the field of second language acquisition but also offers important insights into teaching in an immersion context.
KW  - multilingualism, Mehrsprachigkeit, second language acquisition, Zweitspracherwerb, transfer, Transfer, generic reference, generische Referenz, multilingual education, mehrsprachige Bildung
LA  - English
ER  -