The Role of Age of Exposure to English in the Development of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the United States

Autor/in	Albirini, Abdulkafi
Titel	The Role of Age of Exposure to English in the Development of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the United States
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 25 (2018) 2, S.178-196 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2016.1234620
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Heritage Education; Native Language Instruction; Language Acquisition; Second Language Learning; Linguistic Input; Age Differences; English (Second Language); Correlation; Accuracy; Oral Language; Task Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Monolingualism; Grammar; Morphology (Languages); Phrase Structure; Predictor Variables; Bilingualism; Role; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachbildung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Korrelation; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Aufgabenanalyse; Grammatik; Morphology; Morphologie; Phrasenstruktur; Prädiktor; Bilingualismus; Rollen; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	This study examined two common accounts of heritage speakers' nonnative attainment in their heritage/first language (L1), one attributing it to the influence of the second language (L2) and another to insufficient L1 input. Three groups of children who were heritage speakers of Arabic and who varied in their age of L2 exposure and type and amount of L1 input (n = 31) were compared to monolingual Arabic-speaking children (n = 12).The participants completed three oral tasks targeting subject-verb agreement, plural morphology, and relative clauses. The findings revealed significant differences among the groups, except between the monolingual group and the group of heritage speakers that had not been exposed to English at the time of the study. Although both L2 exposure and L1 input correlated positively with the children's overall accuracy, age of L2 exposure was the only significant predictor of accuracy. The disparity in the groups' performance was also explained by the properties of the linguistic forms under study. (As Provided).
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