Portuguese As An Additional Language (springerbriefs In Linguistics)

Portuguese As An Additional Language (springerbriefs In Linguistics)
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This book focuses on Portuguese as an additional language and its young learners in threecase studies within the Portuguese-speaking world: Portuguese as a second language inCape Verde, Portuguese as a heritage language in Switzerland and Portuguese as a foreignlanguage in Macao SAR. The term additional language is used as an umbrella term for allthree contexts. An analysis of these three case studies is presented, with a focus on the organization ofexplicit and implicit language policies with regards to population mobility and alsomotivational issues, language attitudes and language use by the sample population.

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