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Hermas, Abdelkader – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study investigates the acquisition of genericity in L2 French and L3 English. While some exponents become generic by assembling morphological, syntactic and discursive cues, definite singular nominals additionally require the well-established kind restriction. It is a pragmatic and language-specific constraint. The participants are L1 Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
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Stenberg-Sirén, Jenny; Vincze, László; Henning-Lindblom, Anna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Adapting the propositions and concepts of ethnolinguistic identity theory, the present paper examined the interactive effects of identification with English, interlanguage boundary, and the perceived ethnolinguistic vitality of English on mobilising efforts towards English, and competitive efforts against English as a third language among young…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Finno Ugric Languages, Swedish
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Zuzana Toth; Tomáš Hlava; Beatriz Gómez-Pablos – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study addresses the research gap of how being a speaker of a Slavic language influences the ability to convey tempo-aspectual meanings in Romance languages by examining personal and impersonal narratives delivered in written and spoken mode by learners of L3 Spanish and L3 Italian with L1 Slovak and L2 English. Narratives are analysed…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages, Native Speakers
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Sypianska, Jolanta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
The aim of this paper is to determine whether all languages in the linguistic repertoire of a multilingual speaker manifest cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and establish the directions of CLI on the basis of chosen vowels from the linguistic repertoire of two groups: the Bilingual group (L1 Polish/L2 Danish) and the Multilingual group (L1…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Phonemes, Polish, Indo European Languages
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Kecskes, Istvan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
This paper aims to discuss how the emerging new language with its own developing socio-cultural foundation affects the existing L1-governed knowledge and pragmatic competence of "adult sequential bilinguals." It is assumed that these bilinguals already have an L1-governed pragmatic competence at place, which will be adjusted to…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Interpersonal Competence, Social Environment, Native Language
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Safont-Jorda, Maria-Pilar – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2011
While research on early simultaneous bilingual acquisition is well-documented, studies on multiple language acquisition in early childhood are still needed. Existing studies have mainly focused on early simultaneous acquisition of three or more languages. Some attention has already been paid to early pragmatic differentiation and cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Children
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Wei, Longxing – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
From some psycholinguistic perspectives, this study examines language transfer by exploring the nature of the multilingual mental lexicon in relation to sources of language transfer. It assumes that the multilingual mental lexicon contains not only lexemes but also language-specific lemmas; language-specific lemmas may activate language-specific…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Transfer of Training, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Moore, Daniele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This contribution documents the strategies bi/plurilingual children spontaneously develop when confronted with a task that demands comprehension of texts in a third language. To illustrate these strategies in context, the paper draws from classroom interaction excerpts: small groups of children (ages 8-10) discover meaning in a text in a language…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Learning Strategies
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Konig, Wolf – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
In the present study we investigate sentence production in the German interlanguage of Turkish students who have learned German as a first and English as a second foreign language. The students know both languages at an (advanced) intermediate level. Nevertheless, we observed some properties of the German interlanguage that seem to indicate an…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Second Language Learning