Publications

Publication details [#58010]

Bergh, Huub van den, Henriëtte de Swart, Emmanuelle Le Pichon and Jacob A.S. Vorstman. 2013. Emergence of patterns of strategic competence in young plurilingual children involved in French international schools. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (1) : 42–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | child language | discourse strategy | foreign language acquisition | multilingualism

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study demonstrates a significant impact of new language acquisition in a formal setting and after the age of four, on speaker orientation. And age has a linear impact on the three distinguished strategy clusters, labelled Speaker, Hearer, and External orientations. This may help explain why young plurilingual learners deploy strategic competence patterns differently.