Publications

Publication details [#58037]

Caruana, Sandro. 2013. Italian in Malta: a socio-educational perspective. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (5) : 602–614.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | foreign language acquisition | L3-acquisition | language status | language use

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses the role of Italian, Malta's (formerly official, mainly administrative and cultural) third language within current educational and other societal fields. With integrated borrowings into Maltese, it remains the most favored foreign language studied.