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Second dialect acquisition /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siegel, Jeff
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.