Publications

Publication details [#7022]

Nemoianu, Anca M. 1980. The boat's gonna leave: A study of children learning a second language from conversations with other children. John Benjamins. vi + 116 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

child-child conversation | conversation, L1-acquisition of | foreign language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, L2-acquisition of

Annotation

An observational study of two young children acquiring English as a second language in the process of playing with other children. Two developmental aspects are simultaneously investigated: learning how to carry on conversations with one's age-peers and learning the societal language - two learning processes that are inextricably interrelated in the case of the two learners observed.

Reviewed by

Houwer, Annick De. 1984. Review of A.M.Nemoianu.

Mey, Jacob. 1982. Review of A. M. Nemoianu (1980: `The boat's gonna leave'), M. D. Fortescue (1980: `A discourse production model for 'twenty questions'), M. J. Adler (1980: `A pragmatic logic for commands'), J. Verschueren (1980: `On speech act verbs').