Publications

Publication details [#61915]

Starr, Rebecca L. and Mihi Park. 2016. The role of formal L2 learning experience in L3 acquisition among early bilinguals. The International Journal of Multilingualism 13 (3) : 274–291.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | foreign language teaching | L3-acquisition | metalinguistic awareness | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Japanese | Korean

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Formal L2 study offers benefits to early bilinguals in L3 acquisition. Such training causes increased metalinguistic awareness, enabling students to productively learn structures divergent from their present linguistic repertoire. Typological similarity of before learnt languages does not notably add to L3 acquisition.