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Awareness of Multilinguality and the Resulting Cross-Linguistic Influence of English and Kiswahili on German: A Study of Multilingual Language Learning Awareness Among Kenyan Secon...
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| Titel: | Awareness of Multilinguality and the Resulting Cross-Linguistic Influence of English and Kiswahili on German: A Study of Multilingual Language Learning Awareness Among Kenyan Secondary School Learners of German as a foreign language |
| Hochschulschrift: | Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, 2019 |
| Format: | E-Book Hochschulschrift |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This study is anchored on two premises: First, that due to cross-linguistic interaction resulting from the interconnectedness of the different language systems in the mind of the multilingual foreign language learner, cross-linguistic influence is inevitable, and, second, that if unmanaged, this interaction might lead to erroneous deviations in the language(s) of the learner. There are studies evidencing cross-linguistic influence of English and Kiswahili on German amongst the Kenyan learners of this language. The question of the learners’ awareness of this phenomenon, however, remains unanswered. In the framework of multilingual language learning awareness, and by use of an Untimed Grammaticality Judgement test consisting of grammatical errors in German arising from cross-linguistic influence of English and Kiswahili, this study constructs explicit grammatical knowledge as an aspect of metalinguistic knowledge. It further assesses the learners’ ability to apply this knowledge in the negotiation of the presented errors as evidence of awareness of cross-linguistic influence, with the ultimate aim of establishing what constitutes the learners’ awareness of multilinguality and cross-linguistic influence of the dominant English and Kiswahili on German as a foreign language. |
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