Effects of the Second Language on the First. Second Language Acquisition, Volume 3.

Second Language Acquisition

by Vivian Cook (Editor)

This study examines changes in the first language of people who know a second language, thus seeing L2 users as people in their own right differing from the monolingual in both first and second languages. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition and syntax and using a variety of linguistic and psychological models. The broad range of contributions means that this text should relate to most courses in second language acquisition.

268 pages, ebook

First published February 14, 2003

About the author

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Vivian Cook is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is known for his work on second language acquisition, particularly for the concept of multi-competence, and has written technical textbooks and popular books on areas of linguistics ranging from intonation to first language acquisition to spelling.