TY  - JOUR
A1  - Maluch, Jessica Tsimprea
A1  - Kempert, Sebastian Benjamin
T1  - Bilingual profiles and third language learning: the effects of the manner of learning, sequence of bilingual acquisition, and language use practices
JF  - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
N2  - This study investigates the effect of bilingualism on learning English as a foreign language (L3), examining the impact of manner and sequence of bilingual acquisition and learning as well as language use practices in language minority children. With a sample of 1295 German eighth and ninth graders (bilingual: n = 456, monolingual: n = 839), we examined if certain aspects of bilingualism present an advantageous condition for learning English as a foreign language in bilingual language minority students. Controlling for socio-economic status, indicators of cultural capital, and gender, the regression analyses revealed higher L3 listening and reading outcomes for bilinguals who received formal instruction in their minority language, had acquired both languages in their first three years, and switched more often between their two languages, when compared to their other bilingual and monolingual peers. The discussion focuses on the importance for bilingual children in immigrant communities to have high proficiencies in both majority and minority languages in order to develop advantages in foreign language learning.
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - language minority learners
KW  - foreign language learning
KW  - multilingualism
KW  - third language acquisition
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1322036
SN  - 1367-0050
SN  - 1747-7522
VL  - 22
IS  - 7
SP  - 870
EP  - 882
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -