Michael W. Child

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael W. Child plays a role.

Title

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto

Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Grounded in research on explicit and implicit knowledge and on the role of conscious awareness in language learning, this interpretive case study examined the efforts of one Portuguese teacher to implement a focus on language within a language arts curriculum based on literary genres with a… read more
Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto 2017 Chapter 1. Introduction: Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone worldMultidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
Child, Michael W. 2017 Chapter 3. The Typological Primacy Model and bilingual types: Transfer differences between Spanish/English bilinguals in L3 Portuguese acquisitionMultidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 41–64 | Chapter
The Typological Primacy Model (TPM;Rothman, 2011,2013,2015) proposes that transfer in the initial stages of L3 acquisition will come from the most structurally similar background language, regardless of the order and context of previous language acquisition. However, research on L3 Brazilian… read more