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Acquisition of English in and out of school: Comparing bilingual and trilingual student's acquisition of the English language
Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science.
2019 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The English language has a great influence on Swedish culture. Swedish students learn English in school, listen to music in English and watch movies where English is spoken. As the importance of English increases the number of students who already speak a second language also increases. Therefore, the objective of this essay is to compare bilingual and trilingual students in their English acquisition and establish which differences that can be found between these two groups of students. The results showed that even if the students media consumption did not differ, the bilingual students were exposed to English in a greater degree. Even though the bilingual students were exposed to English to a greater degree, the bilingual and trilingual students showed similar results in the English subject. The results also showed that the trilingual students who were exposed to English in the same extent as the bilingual students showed better results in the English subject.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019.
Keywords [en]
Second language acquisition, Third language acquisition, Bilingualism, Trilingualism, English, Swedish
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Humanities and the Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-41072OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-41072DiVA, id: diva2:1374796
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English
Educational program
Primary Teacher Education, 240 credits
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Available from: 2019-12-03 Created: 2019-12-02 Last updated: 2019-12-03Bibliographically approved

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