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Publication details [#47733]
Stakhnevich, Julia. 2005. Third Language Acquisition in Immersion: A Case Study of a Bilingual Immigrant Learner. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 2 (4) : 215–232. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
Annotation
This paper presents a diary study, carried out to examine third language acquisition in a Mexican immersion setting as experienced by a bilingual Russian/English immigrant learner of Spanish, who had recently migrated from Russia to the USA. Language learning is considered as a socialization process and the study emphasizes identity's contextual nature and the influence of third-language immersion on self-interpretation in learners' first and second languages.