Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning : Revisiting the Age Factor /

This book constitutes a holistic study of how and why late starters surpass early starters in comparable instructional settings. Combining advanced quantitative methods with individual-level qualitative data, it examines the role of age of onset in the context of the Swiss multilingual educational s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Pfenninger, Simone E. (Autor), Singleton, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
Colección:Second Language Acquisition
Temas:
Classroom environment.
Language acquisition > Age factors.
Second language acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics.
CLIL.
L2 instructional learning.
SLA.
affective factors.
age factor.
age research.
classroom L2 learning.
crosslinguistic influence.
early FL learning .
foreign language learning.
individual differences.
language policies.
language proficiency.
literacy.
multilevel modelling.
psycholinguistics.
second language acquisition.
second language education.
teenage learners.
the role of age in language learning.
young learners.
younger is better in foreign language learning.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Mapping the Terrain
  • 2. The Current Empirical Study
  • 3. Age and (Statistical) Analysis
  • 4. Age and Rate of Acquisition
  • 5. Age and Affect
  • 6. Age and Crosslinguistic Influence
  • 7.Age and the Impact of Differential Input
  • 8. Educational Implications
  • 9. Conclusion and Future Perspectives
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index

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