Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context:Crosslinguistic Perspectives: Crosslinguistic Perspectives

The new research contained in twelve chapters emphasizes the area of social context and second language acquisition. We now have a better understanding of the total process of acquisition from multiple perspectives: cognitive, linguistic, and social. A wide variety of target and source languages are examined, including French and American native speakers of English, English-speaking children acquiring Irish, Chinese acquiring Hungarian, Moroccan acquiring Dutch, and Dutch learners acquiring French.