A Vygotskyan Psycholinguistic Perspective on the Acquisition and Loss of Japanese.

McCreary, Don R.

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Publication Date: 1985

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A Vygotskyan Psycholinguistic Perspective on the Acquisition and Loss of Japanese.

McCreary, Don R.

Issues in Applied Psycholinguistics, v17 n2-3 p159-71 Sep-Dec 1985

Presents a psycholinguistic analysis of young children's performance in Japanese before, during, and after a two-month stay in Japan from the perspective of Vygotsky and the Soviet school of psycholinguistics. Looks at the social function of their utterances, the types of regulation involved, and strategic functions that may be intended. (SED)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Skill Attrition, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Young Children

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Language: English

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