Journal•ISSN: 0143-4632
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Taylor & Francis
About: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Multilingualism & First language. It has an ISSN identifier of 0143-4632. Over the lifetime, 2360 publications have been published receiving 49357 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development.
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TL;DR: Second language acquisition: an introductory course (3rd edition), by Susan Gass and Larry Selinker, Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2008, xviii + 593 pp., £62.50/US$100.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8...
Abstract: Second language acquisition: an introductory course (3rd edition), by Susan Gass and Larry Selinker, Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2008, xviii + 593 pp., £62.50/US$100.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8...
610 citations
TL;DR: This article presented a model of second language acquisition based on the social psychology of acculturation, which predicts that learners will acquire the target language to the degree they acculturate to a target language group.
Abstract: This paper presents a model of second language acquisition based on the social‐psychology of acculturation. The model maintains that certain social and psychological variables cluster into a single variable, acculturation. The model predicts that learners will acquire the target language to the degree they acculturate to the target language group. Six studies that, in various, ways seek to test the Acculturation Model are reviewed and evaluated. Technical problems that affect such research are discussed, and the current status of the model is assessed.
563 citations
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TL;DR: The monolingual view of bilingualism has been criticised for its negative consequences on various areas of bilingual research and a bilingual (or wholistic) view has been proposed.
Abstract: A particular view of bilingualism — the monolingual (or fractional) view — has been given far too much importance in the study of bilinguals. According to it, the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person. In this paper, the monolingual view is spelled out, and the negative consequences it has had on various areas of bilingual research are discussed. A bilingual (or wholistic) view is then proposed. According to it, the bilingual is not the sum of two complete or incomplete monolinguals; rather, he or she has a unique and specific linguistic configuration. This view is described and four areas, of research are discussed in its light: comparing monolinguals and bilinguals, language learning and language forgetting, the bilingual's speech modes, the bilingual child and ‘semilingualism’.
469 citations