| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Contents |
THE ACQUISITION OF SPATIAL RELATIONS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Background to the study; 2 Theoretical framework; 3 The acquisition of English; 4 The acquisition of German; 5 The acquisition of French; 6 General conclusions; APPENDIX: the learners; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to express spatial relations in the target languages English, French and German. Learners' progress in the expression of spatial relations is closely followed over a period of 30 months using a wide range of oral data, and the factors determining both the specifics of individual source/target language pairing |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Second language acquisition.
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Space and time in language
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Second language acquisition
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Space and time in language
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carroll, Mary
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Giacobbe, Jorge
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Perdue, Clive
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Porquiez, Rémi
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| ISBN |
9789027282767 |
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9027282765 |
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