Yvonne, 

You state that "Semilingualism refers to non-native speakers (e.g., 
ESL students, and usually identified in elementary school settings), 
who have not acquired a sufficient foundation in either the first or 
second language." 

Alan Davies, though, in his book "The Native Speaker: Myth and 
Reality," applies the term *semilingualism* both to native and non-
native speakers. He states:

"What semilingualism argues (Skutnabb-Kangas, 1981) is that in 
certain situations, "either of a multilingual character or an 
impoverished one, which creates a climate of disadvantage, children 
may be brought up with no fully developed linguistic system and what 
they have will be either (a) a set (two or more) of partial systems 
or (b) one inadequate system." (p. 30)

Eduard 

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