Open AccessWhy a preference for English as a foreign language over a heritage language?
Author(s) -
Leyla Hasbún Hasbún
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
revista de filología y lingüística de la universidad de costa rica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2215-2628
pISSN - 0377-628X
DOI - 10.15517/rfl.v31i2.4427
Subject(s) - linguistics , heritage language , preference , foreign language , english language , computer science , psychology , mathematics , philosophy , statistics
This is a linguistic autobiography whose objective is to explore some of the linguistic, socio-cultural and personality factors that have contributed to the fact that the author has successfully acquired English as a foreign language, has experienced varying degrees of success while learning other languages, but has not acquired Arabic, her heritage language.
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