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Foreign Language and Mother Tongue

Foreign Language and Mother Tongue
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  • ISBN-13: 9780805827606
  • ISBN: 0805827609
  • Publication Date: 2000
  • Publisher: Psychology Press

AUTHOR

Tnde Papp, Istvan Kecskes

SUMMARY

In this book, the authors present research and theory to argue that metalinguistic awareness of one's native language is altered by either the acquisition or the learning of a second language. The main argument is that people with more than one language have different knowledge of their first language (L1) than do monolingual people, and this difference can mainly be due to the effect of subsequent languages on the development and use of L1 skills.This book offers: -- a multilingual perspective which emphasizes that knowledge of two or more languages results in a unique and complex competence that is not equal to the sum of knowledge of monolingual speakers of those languages, -- an attempt to demonstrate that effective foreign language learning can lead to multicompetence even if the socio-cultural background of the target language is not present, -- a cognitive-pragmatic perspective of language representation and processing which means a move away from the lexical-syntactic approach that has been dominating bilingual research, -- a discussion of the effect of foreign language learning on the use and development of mother tongue skills which will focus not only on demonstrating that this influence exists but also explaining how this takes place by reexamining and discussing issues such as conceptualization in a second language, metalinguistic awareness, linguistic relativity, relationship of thought and word, and transfer of skills, and-- an opportunity for educators to rethink and reevaluate the importance and impact of foreign language teaching and learning on the development of human personality, mother tongue use, and overall growth of the individual.Tnde Papp is the author of 'Foreign Language and Mother Tongue', published 2000 under ISBN 9780805827606 and ISBN 0805827609.

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