Cognate Vocabulary in Language Acquisition and Use : Attitudes, Awareness, Activation

This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data on Polish-English cognates and their use by learners/users of English to show the importance of cognates in language acquisition and learning. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Bilingual and Multilingual Language Use 1. Language Users and Language Use 2. Attitudes Towards Bilingual and Multilingual Language Use: The Western and Central-European Perspective Part 2: Defining Lexical Crosslinguistic Similarity 3. Where Does Crosslinguistic Similarity Come From? 4. Crosslinguistic Lexical Similarity Part 3: Lexical Crosslinguistic Similarity in Use 5. Crosslinguistic Similarity and Crosslinguistic Influences 6. Cognate Vocabulary in Language Processing 7. Cognate Vocabulary in Second Language Acquisition 8. Language-related Factors in Lexical CLI 9. Learner-related Factors Affecting Lexical CLI 10. Reliance on Lexical CLI as a Strategic Behaviour Part 4: Investigating Lexical Crosslinguistic Similarity in Language Learning 11. Introduction: Researching the Awareness of Cognates in Polish Learners of English 12. Investigating the Awareness of Cognate Vocabulary: Polish Adult Learners of English 13. Using Cognates as a Vocabulary Learning Strategy: Polish Adult Learners of English 14. Awareness of Cognates as a Motivational Strategy: The Age Factor 15. Towards Plurilingual Language Teaching with References Index This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by bilingual and multilingual learners/users of English. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data to explain which factors affect a learner's awareness of cognates, how adult learners can benefit from raised awareness and whether cognate vocabulary can be used with younger learners as a motivational strategy. The work shows how cognate vocabulary can be examined from a range of methodological perspectives and provides considerable insights into crosslinguistic influences in language learning. While the focus of the studies is Polish-English cognates, the research will be of interest to anyone teaching learners of different language constellations, levels, ages and backgrounds. -- Provided by publisher