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Advanced Learners’ Use of Dutch Second Person Pronouns During Residence Abroad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Roel Vismans
Roel Vismans*
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Department of Germanic Studies, University of Sheffield, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RA, UK, [r.vismans@sheffield.ac.uk]
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Abstract

The complex sociolinguistic system for Dutch forms of address presents students of Dutch as a foreign language with particular difficulties in learning to use second person pronouns appropriately. This article discusses the role of a period of residence in the Low Countries in advancing these students’ proficiency in this respect. The research is based on interviews with final-year students of Dutch in the UK. The analysis is framed in terms of intercultural communicative competence and approaches to learning.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 21 , Issue 2: Special Issue in Honour of Martin Durrell , June 2009 , pp. 211 - 230
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 2009

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