Multiple Language Acquisition: "Damn It, Why Can't I Keep These Two Languages Apart?".

Selinker, Larry; Baumgartner-Cohen, Beatrice

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ERIC Number: EJ521674

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Publication Date: 1995

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Multiple Language Acquisition: "Damn It, Why Can't I Keep These Two Languages Apart?"

Selinker, Larry; Baumgartner-Cohen, Beatrice

Language, Culture and Curriculum, v8 n2 p115-21 1995

Addresses the principles underlying the merging of interlanguages in multiple-language acquisition. The article claims that there is an "interlanguage logic" in multiple- language acquisition and that one can see the structure of the basic learning strategy in interlanguage creation: "interlingual identification." (seven references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Development, College Students, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage, Italian, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Linguistic Theory, Multilingualism, Portuguese, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Germany; Turkey

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