Crosslinguistic Influence and Crosslinguistic Interaction in Multilingual Language Learning

Gessica De Angelis is Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Urlike Jessner is Associate Professor at University of Innsbruck, Austria.Marijana Kresic is Associate Professor at University of Zadar, Croatia.

• 1. IntroductionGessica De Angelis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Marijana Kresic (University of Zadar, Croatia)2. Perceptual Training of Novel Speech Contrasts in L3 Acquisition: The Effect of Multilingual BenefitDivya Verma Gogoi, James D. Harnsberger and Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida, USA) 3. The Lexicon-Syntax Interfacein 3L1 acquisition: An Experimental Investigation of the Unaccusative/Unergative DistinctionMegan Devlin, Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster, Ireland)4. Can a Background Language Alter the Path of Acquisition of Verb Placement in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from a Longitudinal StudyLaura Sánchez (University of Barcelona, Spain)5. Item-related determinants of cognate guessing in multilingualsJan Vanhove and Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)6. Developing Cognitive Strategies through Pluralistic approachesRebecca Dahm (Université de Limoges, France)7. “If you know Amharic you can read this”: Emergent literacy in multilingual pre-reading children Anat Stavans (Beit Berl College and Research Institute for Innovation in Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)8. Does German help speakers of Dutch to understand written and spoken Danish words? – The role of second language knowledge in decoding an unknown but related languageFemke Swarte, Anja Schüppert and Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)9. Is A2 in German better than B2 in French when reading Danish? The role of prior language knowledge when faced with an unknown languageKarolina Mieszkowska and Agnieszka Otwinowska (University of Warsaw, Poland)10. Do learners transfer from the language they perceive as most closely related to the L3? The role of psychotypology for lexical and grammatical cross-linguistic influence in French L3Christina Lindqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden)11. Epilogue De Angelis, Jessner, KresicBibliographyIndex

The strength is that the information of the book applies not only to teaching and learning English as is traditionally the case, but to other languages which are taught in many countries in addition to English. This makes the volume very important practically. Dealing with different languages, including languages as different as Dutch, Spanish, Scottish and Italian, rather than only English, it is of value to many places in the world. The collection deepens the topic, focusing on how speakers perceive the closeness between languages.