The development of suppletive and affixal tense and agreement morphemes in the l3 english of basque-spanish bilinguals

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-149

  García Mayo, María Del Pilar ^a   Villarreal Olaizola, Izaskun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basque Spanish bilinguals; classroom learning; CLIL; L3 English; suppletive and affixal inflection; tense and agreement morphology; third language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650489313     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658310386523     Document Type: Article

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