1. Introduction Gessica De Angelis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Marijana Kresic (University of Zadar, Croatia) 2. Perceptual Training of Novel Speech Contrasts in L3 Acquisition: The Effect of Multilingual Benefit Divya Verma Gogoi, James D. Harnsberger and Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida, USA) 3. The Lexicon-Syntax Interfacein 3L1 acquisition: An Experimental Investigation of the Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction Megan Devlin, Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster, Ireland) 4. Can a Background Language Alter the Path of Acquisition of Verb Placement in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study Laura Sánchez (University of Barcelona, Spain) 5. Item-related determinants of cognate guessing in multilinguals Jan Vanhove and Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 6. Developing Cognitive Strategies through Pluralistic approaches Rebecca Dahm (Université de Limoges, France) 7. “If you know Amharic you can read this”: Emergent literacy in multilingual pre-reading children Anat Stavans (Beit Berl College and Research Institute for Innovation in Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel) 8. Does German help speakers of Dutch to understand written and spoken Danish words? – The role of second language knowledge in decoding an unknown but related language Femke Swarte, Anja Schüppert and Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 9. Is A2 in German better than B2 in French when reading Danish? The role of prior language knowledge when faced with an unknown language Karolina Mieszkowska and Agnieszka Otwinowska (University of Warsaw, Poland) 10. Do learners transfer from the language they perceive as most closely related to the L3? The role of psychotypology for lexical and grammatical cross-linguistic influence in French L3 Christina Lindqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden) 11. Epilogue De Angelis, Jessner, Kresic Bibliography Index

The strength is that the information of the book applies not only to teaching and learning English as is traditionally the case, but to other languages which are taught in many countries in addition to English. This makes the volume very important practically. Dealing with different languages, including languages as different as Dutch, Spanish, Scottish and Italian, rather than only English, it is of value to many places in the world. The collection deepens the topic, focusing on how speakers perceive the closeness between languages.