Foreign languages acquisition: self-learning and language schools

We examine patterns of acquiring non-native languages in a model with two linguistic communities with heterogeneous learning skills, where every individual faces the choice of self-learning the foreign language or acquiring it at a profit-maximizing linguistic school. We consider a one-school model with divisions in both communities and various two-school settings with a school in each community. We compare the number of learners and welfare implications under self-learning with those obtained under various schooling contexts. In particular, we show that for communities with similar size, introducing language schools always increases the number of learners with respect to the exclusive self-learning option.

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Document type	Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type	Accès interdit
Publication date	2011
Language	Anglais
Journal information	"The Review of Network Economics" - Vol. 10, no. 1, p. Article 1 (2011)
Peer reviewed	yes
Publisher	Network Economics Consulting Group ((Australia) North Sydney)
issn	1446-9022
Publication status	Publié
Affiliations	UCL - SSH/LIDAM/CORE - Center for operations research and econometrics Université Libre de Bruxelles - ECARES Université de la Méditerranée - GREQAM Southern Methodist University - Department of Economics UCL - EUEN/CORE - Center for operations research and econometrics
Keywords	Communicative benefits ; Linguistic communities ; Equilibrium ; Learning costs
Links	http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/76206[Handle] https://doi.org/10.2202/1446-9022.1185[DOI]

See also
	[boreal:68800]	Foreign languages' acquisition: self learning and linguistic schools