Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years

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dc.contributor.advisorYoung, Douglasen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKeogh, Susan Elizabethen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-15T07:14:25Z
dc.date.available2016-02-15T07:14:25Z
dc.date.issued1983en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 333-356.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis investigation is concerned with what three children remembered or had forgotten of a second language after an interval of two years. An in-depth study, consisting of recognition and recall tests, was made of 13-year-old identical twin girls and their 9-year-old brother, who previously had been English/French bilinguals. A phenomenological approach was taken, which included the children's reaction to the tests, and their description of the personal framework within which the learning and forgetting had taken place. The findings, which are suggestive due to limited data, are: first, cognitive and maturational differences between the children caused the twins to retain more recognition and active recall of French than their brother; second, the twins showed a surprising difference in their recognition of French, pos9ibly caused by affective factors; third, all three children showed strongest recognition in the area of semantics, while in recall they retained phonology best; fourth, in the tests, habit memory and episodic memory were more durable than semantic memory. The investigation is a first step towards understanding how children forget a language in which they have been submersed.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationKeogh, S. E. (1983). <i>Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17029en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKeogh, Susan Elizabeth. <i>"Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 1983. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17029en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKeogh, S. 1983. Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Keogh, Susan Elizabeth AB - This investigation is concerned with what three children remembered or had forgotten of a second language after an interval of two years. An in-depth study, consisting of recognition and recall tests, was made of 13-year-old identical twin girls and their 9-year-old brother, who previously had been English/French bilinguals. A phenomenological approach was taken, which included the children's reaction to the tests, and their description of the personal framework within which the learning and forgetting had taken place. The findings, which are suggestive due to limited data, are: first, cognitive and maturational differences between the children caused the twins to retain more recognition and active recall of French than their brother; second, the twins showed a surprising difference in their recognition of French, pos9ibly caused by affective factors; third, all three children showed strongest recognition in the area of semantics, while in recall they retained phonology best; fourth, in the tests, habit memory and episodic memory were more durable than semantic memory. The investigation is a first step towards understanding how children forget a language in which they have been submersed. DA - 1983 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1983 T1 - Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years TI - Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17029 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/17029
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKeogh SE. Acquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 years. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 1983 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17029en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Educationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherMemoryen_ZA
dc.subject.otherRecollection (Psychology)en_ZA
dc.subject.otherSecond language acquisitionen_ZA
dc.subject.otherLanguage Educationen_ZA
dc.titleAcquiring & forgetting a second language : a study of three children aged 5-11 yearsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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