9. Crossing the second threshold

Aronin, Larissa; Hufeisen, Britta

doi:10.1075/aals.6.09ch9

In:The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition
Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 6] 2009
► pp. 155–160

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9. Crossing the second threshold

Larissa Aronin

Britta Hufeisen

Published online: 22 October 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.6.09ch9

In this final chapter we shall highlight once again the crucial steps in the exploration of multilingualism(1) , recapitulate the salient developments in L3 and multilingualism research which were revealed in this volume (2) and attempt to look into the future of research into third and multiple language acquisition and multilingualism(3).

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