Tasks, Pragmatics and Multilingualism in the Classroom: A Portrait of Adolescent Writing in Multiple Languages

By Sofia Martin-Laguna

This book reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of pragmatic markers in written discourse in a third language (English) by secondary students living in the bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) Valencian Community in Spain. It examines pragmatic transfer, specifically positive transfer, in multilingual students from a holistic perspective.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788923642
• ISBN13: 9781788923644
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"