Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional empirical study herein investigates the syntax-semantics interface in English speaking children acquiring German and French as second languages. The author discusses variables such as crosslinguistic influence, the complexity of the learning tasks, cognitive maturity and the learning context. By focusing on child second language acquisition in immersion education, this book not only substantially contributes to the field of second language acquisition but also offers important insights into teaching in an immersion context.

This monography provides a comprehensive insight into the overriding hot topics regarding the implementation of bilingual education type CLIL (content and language integrated learning) that have been recently spotlighted by researchers and different stakeholders, including families and students. The authors analyse the multiple faces of CLIL as a global and ecological phenomenon and examine the potential of CLIL to guarantee effective language learning, along with preservation of adequate levels of content acquisition and satisfactory development of the mother tongue. The role of pre-service and in-service teacher training in unfolding CLIL is scrutinized, among other burning issues such as egalitarianism and sustainability of the approach.

Die italo-brasilianische Literatur über die italienische Einwanderung in Brasilien am Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts ist ein frühes, aber bislang kaum untersuchtes Beispiel der literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit. Diese Arbeit analysiert die Formen und Funktionen der Sprachmischung zwischen brasilianischem Portugiesisch und Italienisch/Talian in 20 literarischen Texten aus São Paulo und Rio Grande do Sul von den 1920er bis in die 2000er Jahre aus soziolinguistischer Perspektive. Dabei werden Theorien zur literarischen Mündlichkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit mit denen des Code-Switching verbunden und die Ergebnisse vor dem Hintergrund kulturwissenschaftlicher und soziolinguistischer Hybriditätstheorien interpretiert.

This book discusses the pivotal role of African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) in promoting, enhancing, and sustaining livelihoods in Africa. The authors argue that AIKS are of central importance in the development of sustainable livelihoods, particularly in rural communities. In their analysis, they draw on interdisciplinary research in the fields of agriculture, cultural and indigenous studies, development studies, education, geography, political science, and sociology. The objective is to make AIKS more applicable to mainstream educational and development agendas in Africa, a pressing issue in areas where Eurocentric scientific practices are cost prohibitive. The Dynamic of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems will be of interest to development professionals, policy makers, academics, students, and anyone interested in the field of AIKS and sustainable development in rural communities.

This book is the "greatest hits" compilation of more than one hundred Russian books, journals, papers, and articles. It contains more than fifteen thousand key Russian economic, legal, medical, military, political, scientific, and sociological terms and colloquial phrases. It also contains important abbreviations. One look will convince you, the student or interpreter, of the value of this work