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Cognate Vocabulary in Language Acquisition and Use: Attitudes, Awareness, Activation
Agnieszka Otwinowska
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Paperback. This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data on Polish-English cognates and their use by learners/users of English to show the importance of cognates in language acquisition and learning. Series: Second Language Acquisition. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Second Language Acquisition
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783094370
SKU
V9781783094370
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About Agnieszka Otwinowska
Agnieszka Otwinowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include crosslinguistic influences, bilingual and multilingual language acquisition in children and adults, language teaching, bilingual education and CLIL. She is the co-editor of Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Contexts (with Gessica De Angelis, Multilingual Matters, 2014).
Reviews for Cognate Vocabulary in Language Acquisition and Use: Attitudes, Awareness, Activation
This book offers one of the most extensive treatments of crosslinguistic lexical similarity. Otwinowska defines cognates broadly as words with similar forms and meanings across languages and discusses the origins of such words, how they become associated in the mind, what types of crosslinguistic influences arise from these associations, and how language learners and teachers can make the best use ... Read more