Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning: Revisiting the Age Factor - Couverture souple

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Pfenninger, Simone E.; Singleton, David

 
9781783097616: Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning: Revisiting the Age Factor
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ISBN 10 : 1783097612 ISBN 13 : 9781783097616
Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2017

Synopsis

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 system and focuses on performance at the beginning and end of secondary school, thereby offering a long-term view of the teenage experience of foreign language learning. The study scrutinised factors that seem to prevent young starters from profiting from their extended learning period and investigated the mechanisms that enable late beginners to catch up with early beginners relatively quickly. Taking account of contextual factors, individual socio-affective factors and instructional factors within a single longitudinal study, the book makes a convincing case that age of onset is not only of minimal relevance for many aspects of instructed language acquisition, but that in this context, for a number of reasons, a later onset can be beneficial.

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À propos de l?auteur

Simone E. Pfenninger is Assistant Professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Her research interests include multilingualism, psycholinguistics and the age factor in SLA and she is co-editor (with Judit Navracsics) of Future Research Directions for Applied Linguistics (2017, Multilingual Matters). David Singleton is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Hungary and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He has published widely on second language acquisition, multilingualism and lexicology and is co-author (with Vivian Cook) of Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition (2014, Multilingual Matters).

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Éditeur
Multilingual Matters
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783097612
ISBN 13 
9781783097616
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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9781783097623: Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning: Revisiting the Age Factor

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ISBN 10 :  1783097620 ISBN 13 :  9781783097623
Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2017
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