Typically, it is believed that this sesquilingual discourse is due to the absence of suitable terms in the inferior language.
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Sesquilingual
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Ireland's sesquilingual situation is thus the inverse of the 'normal' European situation, where English is the prestige language and the native language of lower prestige.
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Being already sesquilingual, the Hong Kong Chinese are therefore quite receptive to the teaching of another language.
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'Sesquilingual' is not a mythical animal like the native speaker or foreign learner, but a newfangled term for someone who is good in one language, say English, and only half as...
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