English in Europe : the acquisition of a third language / edited by Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner. - xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 19 . - Bilingual education and bilingualism 19. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 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 -- English as a European Lingua Franca: Current realities and existing dichotomies -- Issues in Third Language Acquisition -- Research on Multilingual Acquisition -- Putting Language Proficiency in its Place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/academic language distinction -- The Dynamics of Third Language Acquisition -- Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives -- Metaphorical Competence in Trilingual Language Production -- Word-fragment Completions in the Second (German) and Third (English) Language: A contribution to the organisation of the trilingual speaker's lexicon -- Towards the Construction of a Theory of Cross-linguistic Transfer -- Studies in the Acquisition of English as L3: Educational Perspectives -- Bilingualism and Trilingualism in School Students in Catalonia -- Three Languages and Three Linguistic Models in the Basque Educational System -- The Role of English as L3 in a Swedish Immersion Programme in Finland: Impacts on language teaching and language relations -- Trilingual Primary Education in Friesland -- Teaching English as a Third Language to Hungarian-Romanian Bilinguals -- Conclusion -- Expanding the Scope: Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of learning English as a third language in Europe -- The Contributors -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. Pt. IV. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
English language--Study and teaching--Europe
Languages in contact--Europe

PE1128.A2 / E483 2000

428.007104