著者

前野 澄子

出版者

鎌倉女子大学

雑誌

鎌倉女子大学紀要 (ISSN:09199780)

巻号頁・発行日

no.12, pp.63-70, 2005-03

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John Schumann studied the progress of English language acquisition by Alberto, an immigrant from Puerto Rico. After ten months of research, Schumann found that Alberto showed little progress. Alberto's utterances were strikingly similar to pidgin English, baby talk or foreigner talk. After studying Alberto, Schumann proposed his Pidginization Hypothesis of second language acquisition. In the current climate where English is becoming regarded as a world language and non-speakers of English use English as a communication tool, Schumann's hypothesis seems to shed a new light on the study of changing English.