Otwinowska Agnieszka - Cognate Vocabulary In Language Acquisition And Use Attitudes Awareness Activation - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book brings together linguistic psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large - scale long - term research project focusing on Polish - English cognates and their use by bilingual and multilingual learners/users of English. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data to explain which factors affect a learner's awareness of cognates how adult learners can benefit from raised awareness and whether cognate vocabulary can be used with younger learners as a motivational strategy. The work shows how cognate vocabulary can be examined from a range of methodological perspectives and provides considerable insights into crosslinguistic influences in language learning. While the focus of the studies is Polish - English cognates the research will be of interest to anyone teaching learners of different language constellations levels ages and backgrounds.
Title: Cognate Vocabulary In Language Acquisition And Use Attitudes Awareness Activation
Author(s): Otwinowska Agnieszka
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781783094370
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/9/2015
Series: Second Language Acquisition
Category: Bilingualism & Multilingualism