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semilingualism: a standalone construct

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semilingualism1 CONSTRUCTSemilingualismMACSWAN · SECOND LANGUAGE

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Second language acquisition

the contested claim that some bilinguals lack full proficiency in any language, widely criticized as a deficit view of linguistic minorities.

In second language acquisition, semilingualism refers to the contested claim that some bilinguals lack full proficiency in any language, widely criticized as a deficit view of linguistic minorities. This meaning comes from Macswan (2000) in Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.[1]

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acquisition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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  1. Macswan, J. (2000). The Threshold Hypothesis, Semilingualism, and Other Contributions to a Deficit View of Linguistic Minorities. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 22(1), 3-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986300221001

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