By Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner
This ebook emerges as a reaction to the expanding use of English as a lingua franca within the multilingual eu context. It presents an updated review of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and academic facets of study on 3rd language acquisition through targeting English as a 3rd language.
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It will be obvious that this locus in two senses promises a particularly fertile ground for exploration of the issues addressed in this chapter. References Adler, M. (1977) Collective and Individual Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Study. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. Ammon, U. (1991) Die internationale Stellung der deutschen Sprache. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Ammon, U. (1994) The present dominance of English in Europe. With an outlook on possible solutions to the European language problem. Sociolinguistica 8, 114.
Multilingual acquisition presents more diversity than second language acquisition and its study presents greater complexity. Second language acquisition can refer to the process of acquiring a second language after the first language has been acquired, but it can also refer to the acquisition of a second language while the first is being acquired ('early second language acquisition'). 2). 2 Second language acquisition vs. 2 shows, there are at least four possible acquisition orders. The three languages can be acquired consecutively (L1®L2®L3).
What of the macro-ecologies referred to? Again, in the light of the previous discussion it is obvious that ELF does not square at all. At this point one might resort to earlier work on societal bilingualism by Fishman (1972), in which he introduces the technical concept of 'domains' as 'institutional contexts or socio-ecological co-occurrences' and 'major clusters of interaction situations that occur in particular multilingual settings' (1972: 19). At first glance, a domain may constitute the interface between the macro-ecology of 'informal usage' as proposed in Fishman (1996), and discussed in my second section above, and the microecologies which are said to contextualise English as a lingua franca in the present argument.
