ENG2141: Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings

This module introduces you to traditional and modern theories of language acquisition, and  challenges these theories, which cannot account for language acquisition in multilingual settings of the world.  After introducing theories of first and second language acquisition, different issues in language acquisition in today’s world settings will be explored; these include English in contact situations, monolingual versus multilingual acquisition, cognition, versus context, individual versus community, fixity versus fluidity, non-native versus native varieties and the roles they play in language acquisition in the current global context.