Learning and Processing Multiple Languages: The More the Easier?

Autor/in	Festman, Julia
Titel	Learning and Processing Multiple Languages: The More the Easier?
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 71 (2021), S.121-162 (42 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Festman, Julia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12437
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics; Evidence; Second Language Learning; Learning Processes; Prior Learning; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Genetics; Environmental Influences; Transfer of Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik; Evidenz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Learning process; Lernprozess; Vorkenntnisse; Humangenetik; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung
Abstract	This review scrutinizes the evidence concerning the factors that affect the ease with which multilinguals learn additional languages. First, I focus on language learning experiences that could help multilinguals acquire new languages (e.g., consequences of exposure, use of prior knowledge, biliteracy). I then discuss how multilinguals manage multiple languages and struggle with language control problems. By finally shedding more light onto effects of learning on the brain and the ways it adapts to the higher processing demands when having to manage multiple languages, it becomes clear that the key to understanding learning and processing of multiple languages lies in understanding the adaptive and dynamic nature of the brain. Although the brain is striving for efficient processing, environmental influences, communicative demands and genetic predispositions influence the learning and processing of multiple languages. I therefore suggest five specific effects related to multilingualism which may ease subsequent learning of multiple languages. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01