Book Overview

This book focuses on Portuguese as an additional language and its young learners in three

case studies within the Portuguese-speaking world: Portuguese as a second language in

Cape Verde, Portuguese as a heritage language in Switzerland and Portuguese as a foreign

language in Macao SAR. The term “additional language” is used as an umbrella term for all

three contexts.

Analysis and Focus

An analysis of these three case studies is presented, with a focus on the organization of 

explicit and implicit language policies with regards to population mobility and also motivational issues, language attitudes and language use by the sample population.