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Publication details [#32978]
Bongartz, Christiane and Melanie M. Schneider. 2003. Linguistic Development in Social Contexts: A Study of Two Brothers Learning German. The Modern Language Journal 87 (1) : 13–37. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0026-7902
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines success in second language acquisition (SLA) in terms of social interaction and linguistic inventory. The example involves two English-speaking boys of 5 and 7 years old, acquiring German for 1 year in an immersion context.