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Riebandt, Nikodem (2016)

Third and Fourth Language Acquisition of Dutch in Academic Enviroment

Bachelor thesis | Dutch Studies (BA)

In my paper I decided to compare how fast people learn Dutch as their third language compared to how they learn it as their fourth. My hypothesis was that the people who learn it as fourth are gonna be better (they'll have better mastery of the language after the same amount of time following the same course compared to people who learn it as their third language). To test my hypothesis I ran an experiment with the help of students who were learning Dutch at the Leiden University. They came from 2 different courses and each group had a selection of students who learned Dutch as third or fourth language.

Third Fourth Language Acquisition Dutch

Derde Vierde Taalverwerving Nederlands

Author

Riebandt, Nikodem

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Linguistics

Supervisors

Caspers, Johanneke

ECTS Credits

10

Language

nl