English in Europe The Acquisition of a Third Language

by Cenoz, Jasone; Jessner, Ulrike

• ISBN13: 9781853594793
• ISBN10: 1853594792
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-18
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This book emerges as a response to the increasing use of English as a lingua franca in the multilingual European context. It provides an up-to-date overview of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of research on third language acquisition by focusing on English as a third language.

Author Biography

Jasone Cenoz is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her publications include Beyond Bilingualism: Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, co-edited with Fred Genesee (Multilingual Matters 1998).Ulrike Jessner is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Her publications include A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Changing Perspectives in Psycholinguistics, co-authored with Philip Herdina (Multilingual Matters, forthcoming in 2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Jasone Cenoz
Ulrike Jessner
Part I English in Contact with Other Languages in the European Context: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
The Spread of English and the Growth of Multilingualism with English in Europe	1	(21)
Charlotte Hoffmann
English as a European Lingua Franca: Current realities and existing dichotomies	22	(17)
Allan R. James
Part II Issues in Third Language Acquisition
Research on Multilingual Acquisition	39	(15)
Jasone Cenoz
Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/academic language distinction	54	(30)
Jim Cummins
The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition	84	(15)
Philip Herdina
Ulrike Jessner
Part III Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production	99	(22)
Istvan Kecskes
Tunde Papp
Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A contribution to the organisation of the trilingual speaker's lexicon	121	(22)
Ute Schonpflug
Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer	143	(14)
Christine Bouvy
Part IV Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives
Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia	157	(22)
Carmen Munoz
Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System	179	(19)
David Lasagabaster
The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on language teaching and language relations	198	(24)
Siv Bjorklund
Irmeli Suni
Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland	222	(14)
Jehannes Ytsma
Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals	236	(12)
Tatiana Iatcu
Conclusion
Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of learning English as a third language in Europe	248	(13)
Ulrike Jessner
Jasone Cenoz
The Contributors	261	(3)
Index	264