Publications

Publication details [#60580]

Tsang, Wai Lan. 2015. Learning more, perceiving more? A comparison of L1 Cantonese–L2 English–L3 French speakers and L1 Cantonese–L2 English speakers in Hong Kong. The International Journal of Multilingualism 12 (3) : 312–337.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | L2-acquisition | L3-acquisition | language distance | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English | French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

As to the link between language learning and discerned language differences, this study shows diverging awareness and perception levels of the distance between L1 Cantonese and L2 English in L1 Cantonese–L2 English (CE) and L1 Cantonese–L2 English–L3 French (CEF) groups in Hong Kong, with the CEF group performing best in conveying (dis)similarities among the languages.