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Andersen, Roger W. – Language Learning, 1979
Proposes a revision and expansion of Schumann's (1978b) model of pidginization as it relates to second language learning. A distinction is made between sociocultural aspects of the pidginization cycle and the acquisitional processes of pidginization, creolization, and decreolization. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Research, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
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Schumann, John H. – Language Learning, 1978
Presents arguments for the view that pidginization can be a model of early second language acquisition, decreolization can be a model for later second language acquisition, and creolization is inappropriate for any aspect of this process. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Creoles, Interlanguage, Language Research