Beschreibung:
Gessica De Angelis obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College University of London under the supervision of Jean-Marc Dewaele. She published in the field of third or additional language acquisition, multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence. She has taught at the University of London and at the University of Toronto. She currently carries out research at the University of London.
Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/multilingualism on cognitive development.
1. The multilingual learner and speaker 2. Factors affecting non-native language influence 3. What can be transferred from one or more non-native language to another 4. Multilingual speech production 5. The multilingual lexicon 6. Prior language knowledge, cognitive development and the language acquisition process 7. ConclusionReferencesIndex