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Publication details [#29422]

Corsetti, Renato and Mauro La Torre. 1995. Quale lingua prima? Per un esperimento CEE che utilizzi l´esperanto. [Which language first ? For a European Community experiment using Esperanto.] Language Problems and Language Planning 19 (1) : 26–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

Italian

Keywords

artificial language | foreign language acquisition | language proficiency | testing

Language as a subject

Esperanto

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

After assessing the oversimplification of earlier 20th century experiments on the use of Esperanto as preparatory aid in language acquisition, this study presents a plan for a new Europe-wide experiment that would measure when and to what extent Esperanto can really facilitate language learning.