Keywords
lenguas por herencia
adquisición
inglés
árabe
Líbano
Foreign languages
heritage languages
acquisition
English
Arabic
Lebanon
lenguas extranjeras
lenguas por herencia
adquisición.
How to Cite
Abstract
This is a linguistic autobiography whose objective is to explore some of the linguistic, socio-cultural and personality factors that have contributed to the fact that the author has successfully acquired English as a foreign language, has experienced varying degrees of success while learning other languages, but has not acquired Arabic, her heritage language.References
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