ACQUISITION OF DUTCH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
| Autor: | Frans van der Slik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Linguistics and Language
First language Indo-European languages Context (language use) Linguistic distance Language and Linguistics Linguistics Education Variation (linguistics) Cognate Language proficiency Multilingualism Psychology GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g. dictionaries encyclopedias glossaries) Communicative Competences |
| Zdroj: | Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32, 3, pp. 401-432 Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32, 401-432 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1545 0272-2631 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0272263110000021 |
| Popis: | This study reports on the impact of 11 West European first languages on the acquisition of Dutch. Using data from nearly 6,000 second-language learners, it was found that the mother tongue had a rather large impact on two language skills—namely, oral and written proficiency—as measured by the scores received by these learners on the State Examination of Dutch as a Second Language. Multilevel analyses showed that the effect of the mother tongue can adequately be modeled by means of the cognate linguistic distance measure, adopted from McMahon and McMahon (2005). The explanative power of the genetic linguistic distance measure (Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, & Piazza, 1994), on the other hand, was rather poor. Additionally, learner characteristics (age of arrival, length of residence, hours studying Dutch, education, and gender) and context characteristics (quality of schooling in the country of origin and multilingual country of origin) explained part of the variation in Dutch speaking and writing skills. |
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