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3 - Third Language Acquisition from a Complexity Dynamic Systems Theory Approach

from Part I - Theoretical Approaches to L3/Ln

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

By
Ulrike Jessner
Edited by
Jennifer Cabrelli ,
Adel Chaouch-Orozco ,
Jorge González Alonso ,
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares ,
Eloi Puig-Mayenco  and
Jason Rothman
Jennifer Cabrelli
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Adel Chaouch-Orozco
Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jorge González Alonso
Affiliation:
Universidad Nebrija, Spain and UiT, Arctic University of Norway
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Eloi Puig-Mayenco
Affiliation:
King's College London
Jason Rothman
Affiliation:
UiT, Arctic University of Norway and Universidad Nebrija, Spain
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Summary

Over the last years it has become clear that the investigation of the complexity and the dynamics of multilingual development and use needs to be approached from a new research perspective. This challenging scientific undertaking is not considered an additional approach but a replacement for the common traditional monolingual framework still applied in studying language development.By drawing on recent international research in the field of applied linguistics, this chapter provides an update of the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism (DMM) authored by Herdina and Jessner (2002) which presents the first monograph applying a CDST (complexity and dynamic systems theoretical) approach to multilingual development and use. The holistic perspective of multilingual development and use as a necessary prerequisite of the approach presented in the DMM will be unfolded by increasing the complexity in interaction of levels of inquiry in the study of third language acquisition and multilingualism.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition , pp. 64 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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