The multilingual reader : advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3

Peyer, Elisabeth; Kaiser, Irmtraud; Berthele, Raphael

doi:10.1080/14790711003599443

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	The multilingual reader : advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3
Authors:	Peyer, Elisabeth Kaiser, Irmtraud Berthele, Raphael
DOI:	10.1080/14790711003599443
Published in:	International Journal of Multilingualism
Volume(Issue):	7
Issue:	3
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Routledge
ISSN:	1479-0718 1747-7530
Language:	English
Subjects:	Mehrsprachigkeit; Leseverstehen
Subject (DDC):	404.2: Bilingualism and multilingualism
Abstract:	This study investigates Italian and French students' grammatical problems while reading in German as an L3 or L4. For the study, we developed a reading test which consists of invented encyclopaedia articles on imaginary animals. These articles enabled us to test various grammatical structures for their receptive difficulty. This paper discusses the relationship between students' reading competence in their other foreign languages (mostly English, French or Italian, or Spanish) and their results on our German-reading test. Our results show that especially the less advanced readers of German benefit from their English-reading competence. With increasing competence in German, the influence of English decreases. Furthermore, correlations between the German-reading test and students' overall foreign-language-reading competence hint at possible advantages of being multilingual. Thus, we will aim at exploring to what extent receptive competences in other foreign languages serve to compensate for weaknesses in the knowledge of the target language, in the hope of complementing existing research on reading in an L3.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/15180
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Peyer, E., Kaiser, I., & Berthele, R. (2010). The multilingual reader : advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3. International Journal of Multilingualism, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/14790711003599443

Peyer, E., Kaiser, I. and Berthele, R. (2010) ‘The multilingual reader : advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3’, International Journal of Multilingualism, 7(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790711003599443.

E. Peyer, I. Kaiser, and R. Berthele, “The multilingual reader : advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3,” International Journal of Multilingualism, vol. 7, no. 3, 2010, doi: 10.1080/14790711003599443.

PEYER, Elisabeth, Irmtraud KAISER und Raphael BERTHELE, 2010. The multilingual reader : advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3. International Journal of Multilingualism. 2010. Bd. 7, Nr. 3. DOI 10.1080/14790711003599443

Peyer, Elisabeth, Irmtraud Kaiser, and Raphael Berthele. 2010. “The Multilingual Reader : Advantages in Understanding and Decoding German Sentence Structure When Reading German as an L3.” International Journal of Multilingualism 7 (3). https://doi.org/10.1080/14790711003599443.

Peyer, Elisabeth, et al. “The Multilingual Reader : Advantages in Understanding and Decoding German Sentence Structure When Reading German as an L3.” International Journal of Multilingualism, vol. 7, no. 3, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1080/14790711003599443.