French as a Heritage Language in Germany
| Autor: | Laia Arnaus Gil, Natascha Müller, Johanna Stahnke |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Language and Literature media_common.quotation_subject French as heritage language 05 social sciences Language acquisition 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics Disadvantaged Competence (law) Language shift State (polity) Heritage language Dominance (economics) language separation and cross-linguistic influence Contradiction 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology child and adult heritage speakers media_common |
| Zdroj: | Languages Volume 6 Issue 3 Languages, Vol 6, Iss 122, p 122 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2226-471X |
| DOI: | 10.3390/languages6030122 |
| Popis: | Research on child heritage speakers (HSs) has shown successful language acquisition, comparable to monolinguals, whereas research on adult HSs often claims incomplete acquisition. This seems to be an evident contradiction in the current state of research, which may be explained by a possible language shift during adolescence or adulthood, but which does not necessarily have to be equated with a lack of competence. In an overview of the existing studies on child and adult HSs of French in Germany, we show that HSs are not incomplete acquirers of French and we suggest theoretical and practical implications following these findings. Our aim is to show, first, that HSs of French in Germany are not unanimously disadvantaged compared with French speakers in countries where French is a majority language, and second, that complete acquisition is independent of language dominance, a notion that has received particular attention in studies on multilingual and HL acquisition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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