Plurilingual Competence in a Child: Case Study

Warning

This publication doesn't include Faculty of Arts. It includes Language Centre. Official publication website can be found on muni.cz.
Authors

DOLEŽÍ Linda MÜLLEROVÁ Kateřina

Year of publication 2022
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Language Centre

Citation
Description We present data from a study involving spontaneous speech collection by Müllerová (2022) focusing on a 4-year-old plurilingual child whose mother tongue is Hebrew and who has been acquiring Czech as a second language as well as other foreign languages such as English, Spanish and French. We analyse the data in terms of interlanguage relations and try to see if, to what extent and how the individual languages interact with each other. We pay attention to borrowings, interference, code-switching and agrammatisms and also try to explain matters that do not fall in the previously mentioned categories. By closely observing this particular child's family language policy we can gain an insight into what encourages successful acquisition and usage of multiple languages.

You are running an old browser version. We recommend updating your browser to its latest version.