Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments
Russian native speakers acquiring standard and non-standard varieties of German and Czech| By: | Besters-Dilger, Juliane / Gladkova, Hana |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Print ISBN: | 9783631678510 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783631695883 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2016 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.