International Journal of Bilingual
Education and Bilingualism
Editor: Colin Baker, University of Wales, Bangor
Review Editor: Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, Philadelpia
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Volume: 4 Number: 1 Page: 1–10
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Towards Trilingual Education
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Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner
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This article highlights the fact that learning a third language in school contexts is a common phenomenon all over the world and poses several questions specifically related to the characteristics of third
language acquisition. It also considers the relationship between third language acquisition and the research traditions of bilingualism and second language acquisition. Third language acquisition in school
contexts and trilingual education are regarded as multidisciplinary phenomena associated with the sociolinguistic context in which they take place, the psycholinguistic processes involved in acquiring more
than two languages, the linguistic characteristics of the languages involved and the pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning several languages.
© Multilingual Matters 2001
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