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Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
[Studies in Bilingualism 67] 2024
► pp. 1–33

Introduction

Remarks on an ecosystemic view of multilingual acquisition and learning

 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Language is grammar and much more
    • 1.2Language and its learning as sociobiological construct
    • 1.3What does ecosystemic mean?
  • 2.Facets of complexity
    • 2.1(Bio)Ecology and its systems
    • 2.2The ecosystemic approach explicitly in the literature
  • 3.Ecosystemic view to multilingual acquisition and learning: The compendium
    • 3.1Section 1: General topics
      • Chapter 1.Multilingualism, creativity, and problem-solving
      • Chapter 2.The Literacy Enhancement Hypothesis in bilingual language development
      • Chapter 3.How does dyslexia impact second language acquisition? Insights from a questionnaire study with Italian and German learners of L2 English
      • Chapter 4.Approaching developmental language disorder from a disorder within dialects framework: A focus on dialect-informed terms, materials, and strategic scoring
      • Chapter 5.Stuttering in two languages: An SFL-based exploration of bilingual stuttering
      • Chapter 6.Multilingual data coding and analysis with Phon: A practical demonstration
    • 3.2Section 2: Child speech
      • Chapter 7.Early phonological acquisition in multi-accent contexts
      • Chapter 8.Diagnosing speech sound disorder in bilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children: Are English-only assessments sufficient?
      • Chapter 9.Towards an ecosystemic view of bilingual phonological development
      • Chapter 10.Speech and language assessment of multilingual children in Hungary
      • Chapter 11.Dynamic assessment in phonology: A review and its application to French monolingual and bilingual children
      • Chapter 12.Variation in phonological and morphosyntactic development in multilingual pre-schoolers
    • 3.3Section 3: Adult speech
      • Chapter 13.Phonological features and phonetic variation in multilingual grammars: Restructuring an L3 contrastive hierarchy
      • Chapter 14.Acoustic properties of word-final vowels and the acquisition of gender in Spanish-English heritage speakers
      • Chapter 15.Production of Spanish laterals in early sequential Spanish-English bilinguals
      • Chapter 16.A revised Natural Growth Theory of Acquisition: Evidence from L3 phonology
    • 3.4Section 4: Lexicon and grammar
      • Chapter 17.Bilinguals’ lexical choice in storytelling: Testing the weaker-links hypothesis
      • Chapter 18.Lexical development of French-Portuguese simultaneous bilinguals: Exploration of vocabulary size, word class distribution and lexical selectivity
      • Chapter 19.Morphological awareness in L2 Italian children with a migrant background
      • Chapter 20.On the nature of operators in the grammar of L1 Chinese learners of L2 Japanese
      • Chapter 21.Prosody and head directionality: On the predictability of the prosody of conjunctive coordination
    • 3.5Section 5: Orthography
      • Chapter 22.More than spelling accuracy: Linguistic feature patterns in the misspellings of superior, average, and poor spellers
      • Chapter 23.Phonological transfer in oral and written production among adult L2 learners of Swedish
  • 4.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 30 May 2024
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