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On the Relevance of the Pidginization – Creolization Model for Second Language Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Albert Valdman
Albert Valdman
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Indiana University
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Otto Jespersen was one of the first linguists to perceive a common basis underlying all types of language acquisition and learning. Comparing pidgins, broken or approximative version of a target language, and child language, he commented: “…. in all these seemingly different cases the same mental factor is at work, namely, imperfect mastery of a language, which in its initial stage, in the child with its first language and in a grownup with a second language learnt by imperfect method, leads to a superficial knowledge of the most indispensable words, with a total disregard for grammar”. (1921, 233–4)

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Spring 1979 , pp. 55 - 75
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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