The Role of Bilingualism in Foreign Language Acquisition: Learning English in the Basque Country

This paper deals with the acquisition of a third language (English) and its relationship to psychosocial and socioeducational variables in a bilingual educational context, the Basque country. Subjects were 321 secondary school students from 2 linguistic programs: models A (Spanish, vehicular languag...

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Published inJournal of multilingual and multicultural development Vol. 13; no. 5; p. 433
Main Authors Valencia, Jose Fco, Cenoz, Jasone
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1992
Subjects
Basque
Bilingualism
English (Second Language)
Foreign Countries
Language Skills
Questionnaires
Second Language Learning
Spain
Uncommonly Taught Languages
Spain
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Summary:This paper deals with the acquisition of a third language (English) and its relationship to psychosocial and socioeducational variables in a bilingual educational context, the Basque country. Subjects were 321 secondary school students from 2 linguistic programs: models A (Spanish, vehicular language) and D (Basque, vehicular language). Subjects answered questionnaires that measured both dependant and independent variables. (56 references) (VWL)
ISSN:0143-4632
DOI:10.1080/01434632.1992.9994507