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Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages
Author | : Danuta Gabryś-Barker |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-12 |
Genre | : Language acquisition |
ISBN | : 1783099402 |
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This book brings together research on language learning among aging populations. Contributors discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives, challenge certain familiar preconceptions about older learners and offer the reader ideas for future research in this under-studied area.
Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages
Author | : Danuta Gabryś-Barker |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781783099429 |
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People are increasingly reaching the so-called third age, a period when seniors search for a renewed purpose to life and spend time undertaking activities that they consider motivating, such as the learning of a foreign language. The study of language learning among aging populations has become a fast-growing area of research and this book is one of the first attempts to bring together what we know about this age group and their profiles as foreign language learners. Contributors to the volume discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives. Each of the chapters provides an updated theoretical background and offers some initial conclusions on the basis of original empirical studies carried out. Chapters challenge certain familiar preconceptions and assumptions about senior learners, offer the reader ideas for future research in this under-studied area and provide some practical advice for applying the proposals and solutions offered in real foreign language third-age classrooms.
Third language acquisition
Author | : Camilla Bardel,Laura Sánchez |
Publsiher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9783961102808 |
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This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their multilingual background plays in the process of language learning. The volume points out some current directions in this particular research area with a number of studies that reveal the complexity of multilingual language learning and its typical variation and dynamics. The eight studies gathered in the book represent a wide range of theoretical positions and offer empirical evidence from learners belonging to different age groups, and with varying levels of proficiency in the target language, as well as in other non-native languages belonging to the learner’s repertoire. Diverse linguistic phenomena and language combinations are viewed from a perspective where all previously acquired languages have a potential role to play in the process of learning a new language. In the six empirical studies, contexts of language learning in school or at university level constitute the main outlet for data collection. These studies involve several language backgrounds and language combinations and focus on various linguistic features. The specific target languages in the empirical studies are English, French and Italian. The volume also includes two theoretical chapters. The first one conceptualizes and describes the different types of multilingual language learning investigated in the volume: i) third or additional language learning by learners who are bilinguals from an early age, and ii) third or additional language learning by people who have previous experience of one or more non-native languages learned after the critical period. In particular, issues related to the roles played by age and proficiency in multilingual acquisition are discussed. The other theoretical chapter conceptualizes the grammatical category of aspect, reviewing previous studies on second and third language acquisition of aspect. Different models for L3 learning and their relevance and implications for representations of aspect and for potential differences in the processing of second and third language acquisition are also examined in this chapter. As a whole, the book presents current research into third or additional language learning by young learners or adults, considering some of the most important factors for the complex process of multilingual language learning: the age of onset of the additional language and that of previously acquired languages, social and affective factors, instruction, language proficiency and literacy, the typology of the background languages and the role they play in shaping syntax, lexicon, and other components of a L3. The idea for this book emanates from the symposium Multilingualism, language proficiency and age, organized by Camilla Bardel and Laura Sánchez at Stockholm University, Department of Language Education, in December 2016.
Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language
Author | : María del Pilar García Mayo,María Luisa García Lecumberri |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003-05-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781788920384 |
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This book provides an overview of current research on the age factor in foreign language learning, addressing issues, which are critical for language planning. It presents new research on foreign language learning within bilingual communities in formal instruction settings focussing on syntax, phonology, writing, oral skills and learning strategies.
Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age
Author | : Christiane Lütge |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781000512434 |
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Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age addresses the growing significance of diversifying media in contemporary society and expands on current discourses that have formulated media and a multitude of literacies as integral objectives in 21st-century education. The book engages with epistemological and critical foundations of multiliteracies and related pedagogies for foreign language-learning contexts. It includes a discussion of how multimodal and digital media impact meaning-making practices in learning, the inherent potentials and challenges that are foregrounded in the use of multimodal and digital media and the contribution that (foreign) language education can provide in developing multiliteracies. The volume additionally addresses foreign language education across the formal educational spectrum: from primary education to adult and teacher education. This multifaceted volume presents the scope of media and literacies for foreign language education in the digital age and examples of best practice for working with media in formal language learning contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language teaching and learning, digital education, media education, applied linguistics and TESOL.
Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School
Author | : María del Pilar García Mayo |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781783098125 |
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This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.
Early Learning of Modern Foreign Languages
Author | : Marianne Nikolov |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781847691453 |
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Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few publications focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book represents the state-of-the-art in research on young language learners. Covering a range of languages, contexts and research methods, it provides insights into how young learners progress.
Language Teaching and the Older Adult
Author | : Danya Ramírez Gómez |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781783096312 |
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The aging of the population and the increasing number of older adults pursuing foreign language courses call for a greater understanding of the ways in which these individuals learn foreign languages. This book offers a pioneering contribution to the literature on foreign language education for older adults (aged 60 and over), termed foreign language geragogy. It details an empirical, multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and focuses on the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It discusses the constraints that preconceptions impose on learners, researchers, instructors and administrators, and it offers a set of practical recommendations for foreign language activities for elderly individuals. It also introduces the notion of ‘learner re-training’, an instructional mechanism that contributes to older learners' self-acknowledgment and autonomy development in foreign language learning. The book is directed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages to older adults, and also at education professionals and researchers in the field of foreign language learning in general.