Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments
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- ISBN 9783631678510
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (German) language of the new environment. This process is influenced by their native language. The volume empirically analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to that of a non- or distantly related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment – situation of diglossia in the Czech Republic, diaglossia in Germany – influences this acquisition. It additionally examines the impact of several sociolinguistic factors on L2 acquisition, especially age.
Juliane Besters-Dilger is a full professor of Slavonic studies at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany). Hana Gladkova is a full professor of Slavonic studies at Charles University Prague (Czech Republic).
