The present study attempts to contribute to the understanding of how preschool children with immigrant background in German Switzerland acquire standard German. It addresses mainly some methodological issues in langua...The present study attempts to contribute to the understanding of how preschool children with immigrant background in German Switzerland acquire standard German. It addresses mainly some methodological issues in language assessment. Results from a pilot study also show negative effects of the dialectal environment on the children s acquisition of a standard variety of L2.展开更多
基金funded by the Kar man Fundationpart of an ongoing project on Ger man as a second language in the dialectal environment in Ger manpeaking Switzerland ,supervised by Prof. Elke Hentschel and Prof. Iwar Werlen,University of Bern.
文摘The present study attempts to contribute to the understanding of how preschool children with immigrant background in German Switzerland acquire standard German. It addresses mainly some methodological issues in language assessment. Results from a pilot study also show negative effects of the dialectal environment on the children s acquisition of a standard variety of L2.