Portuguese As An Additional Language (springerbriefs In Linguistics)
Tags: Ana C. Neves

This book focuses on Portuguese as an additional language and its young learners in threecase studies within the Portuguese-speaking world: Portuguese as a second language inCape Verde, Portuguese as a heritage language in Switzerland and Portuguese as a foreignlanguage in Macao SAR. The term additional language is used as an umbrella term for allthree contexts. An analysis of these three case studies is presented, with a focus on the organization ofexplicit and implicit language policies with regards to population mobility and alsomotivational issues, language attitudes and language use by the sample population.