The accelerating effect of multilingualism on learning a new language grammar
The case of grammatical gender agreement
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| ID | 20497609 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Kamil Długosz (0000-0002-9600-6452, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 216-230 |
| Data de publicação | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | XLinguae (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1337-8384 • E-ISSN: 2453-711X |
| Editora | Slovenska Vzdelavacia a Obstaravacia s.r.o (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18355/xl.2024.17.02.15 |
| OpenAlex | W4396689898 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 2 |
| Referências citadas | 25 |
Mounting evidence suggests that prior knowledge of multiple languages can enhance learning additional languages. Nevertheless, the effects of multilingualism on grammar learning among adults are yet to be unveiled. The present study investigates the effect of prior foreign language knowledge on the acquisition of pronominal gender agreement in a new language. Forty-three native speakers of Polish learning Swedish with and without prior knowledge of German completed a speeded acceptability judgment task that involved items with grammatical and ungrammatical pronominal gender agreement in Swedish. According to the results, learners who had learnt German achieved higher accuracy scores than learners who had not. The difference between them decreased with increasing Swedish proficiency. In addition, only learners who had learnt German judged ungrammatical items faster than grammatical items. Thus, the present study demonstrates that prior foreign language knowledge accelerates learning grammatical gender agreement and facilitates access to grammatical gender knowledge in a new language, thereby providing evidence for a multilingual advantage in learning grammar. Implications for language teaching in multilingual contexts are discussed
Agreement · Grammar · Grammatical Gender · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Noun · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies in Language · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citações por ano | 2 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 2 |