Naslov
Quadrilingual experience of Albanian minority speakers in Croatia

Autori
Karabin, Petra ; Cergol Kovačević, Kristina

Izvornik
Hungarian journal of applied linguistics (1587-1061) XVI (2016), 2; 1-14

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
minority language, Albanian, quadrilingual

Sažetak
While minority speakers learning a foreign language through the medium of their second language are sometimes considered to be at a disadvantage, they are also at an advantage, due to their highly developed metalinguistic awareness. We study multilingual experiences of five quadrilingual Albanians residing in Croatia to show their positive attitudes toward language learning and instances of facilitation of their foreign language learning (English as FL1 and German/Italian as FL2) found at the levels of phonology, lexis and grammar. While the learning of foreign language grammar was reported to be facilitated by the knowledge of our participants’ second language metalanguage of Croatian, they also reported instances of facilitation of English phonology acquisition by making associations between the phonological systems of their mother tongue and English. In the learning of their foreign languages’ lexis, associations with the vocabulary of all their languages were used.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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