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Third language acquisition refers to multilinguals learning additional languages. [1] [2] It contrasts with second language acquisition in the narrow sense, which is concerned with the acquisition of an additional language by (then) monolinguals . The success of third language acquisition varies with age and the languages already known, which ...
- My Experience Learning A Third Language
- When Is The Right Time to Start Learning A Third Language?
- How to Choose Your Next Language
- How Can You Be More Efficient in Your Learning This Time around?
- Bonus Tips For Learning A Third Language
Spanish was the first new language I learned to speak fluently. After that, I set my sights on Italian. I worked in a youth hostel in Rome, and spoke Italian with locals while speaking lots of Spanish with guests. For the first few weeks, I was concerned about how I’d cope. I didn’t know whether using both languages at the same time would help or h...
Starting a third language before you’ve reached conversational fluency (this means at least upper-intermediate) in your first can have a negative impact on bothof your foreign languages. No matter which language you choose after you’ve already learned one new language, you risk the following problems: 1. Mixing up both languages 2. Forgetting one l...
How should you choose your next language? Simple: it’s up to you! The most important thing to consider is your interests and passion. Which languages light your fire? As the folklorist Joseph Campbell once said, “follow your bliss”. You can go for a language that’s similar to the one you already speak, or completely different. Even if your second f...
Language learning gets easier with each new language. You can make it even easier by reflecting on how you’ve done with learning a new language so far. Look at what went well, and what you could have done better, the first time around. Then make a concrete plan that plays to your strengths while avoiding the mistakes you made last time. As with man...
Focus On Your Weak Points
What aspect of your first new language did you find most difficult? Pronunciation? Listening? The writing system? For your next language, place more emphasis on this hurdle early on. This will be frustrating. Usually, people want to avoid the most difficult part of an activity, not pay moreattention to it! But doing so will help you progress more quickly. You’ll have to cross it eventually to reach fluency, so the sooner the better. What if your biggest weakness was motivation? Then…
Make Your Language “Mission” Public
I’ve gotten a lot of praise over the years for creating this website and blogging all about my language missions. But it’s actually a really easy thing to do. Anyonecan create a public blog (for free) and write about their progress in learning languages. It’s a really good way of keeping yourself accountable. Does having your own blog seem like too big a step? Then scale it down. Announce your intention on Facebook, or to your immediate circle of friends and family. It’s human nature to not w...
Be Extra Creative With Mnemonics
Suppose Japanese was your first language mission, and now you’re learning Portuguese. The Portuguese word for “thank you” – obrigado– doesn’t have any immediately apparent connection to English. Rather than trying to come up with an obscure mnemonic based on English to help you remember obrigado, look to your knowledge of Japanese instead. The Japanese word for “thank you” sounds like “arigato”. This is surprisingly similar to the Portuguese “obrigado”. Coming up with a memorable mnemonicis s...
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Nov 22, 2018 · The Scalpel Model of Third Language Acquisition (Slabakova, 2017) and the Linguistic Proximity Model (Westergaard et al., 2017) are not considered directly precisely because their recency translates to a dearth of studies that incorporate their predictions into the experimental design. To include them precipitously after a year of existence ...
- Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Jorge González Alonso, Jason Rothman
- 2020
Nov 2, 2022 · Third Language Acquisition, Satellite Workshop on “Phonetics and Phonology in Third Language Acquisition” at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (2007), to name a few. Moreover, numerous books focusing on L3 are released, and journals such as the International Journal of Multilingualism have published several L3-focused ...
Language acquisition research has long made distinctions between first and second language acquirers, recognizing the potentially different paths and outcomes and carrying out systematic investigation. However, only recently—within the past 20 years—has the distinction between second and third language acquirers been treated with the same ...
It provides a full and articulated review of contemporary accounts and findings in the field of second and third language grammar learning. It particularly addresses the question of what is initially transferred to a third language from the morphosyntax of first and/or second languages.
Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing.
