Title Second dialect acquisition / Jeff Siegel

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover13; -- Contents13; -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Attainment in naturalistic SDA -- 3 Acquiring a second dialect -- 4 Differential attainment: Age effects and linguistic factors -- 5 Additional individual and linguistic factors -- 6 The difficulty of SDA -- 7 SDA in classroom contexts -- 8 Educational approaches for SDA -- 9 Explaining the results and taking further steps -- Notes -- References -- Index Summary "What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to England or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such learning different from second language acquisition (SLA), and why is it in some ways more difficult? These are some of the questions Jeff Siegel examines in this book, the first to focus specifically on second dialect acquisition (SDA). Siegel surveys a wide range of studies that throw light on SDA. These concern dialects of English as well as those of other languages, including Dutch, German, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish. He also describes the individual and linguistic factors that affect SDA, such as age, social identity and language complexity. The book discusses problems faced by students who have to acquire the standard dialect without any special teaching, and presents some educational approaches that have been successful in promoting SDA in the classroom"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries English language -- Dialects -- English-speaking countries Languages in contact -- English-speaking countries English language -- Study and teaching. Sociolinguistics. sociolinguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. English language -- Dialects English language -- Study and teaching English language -- Variation Languages in contact Sociolinguistics Englisch Fremdsprachenlernen Mundart Sprachvariante Second language acquisition -- Language varieties. Second language acquisition -- Social aspects. Dialects -- Language acquisition. Engelska språket -- språkvariation -- Engelskspråkiga länder. Språk och samhälle. English-speaking countries Englisch. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511789687 0511789688 9780521516877 0521516870 9780511777820 0511777825 9780511787072 0511787073 9780511788215 0511788215

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