| Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning: Revisiting the Age Factor Contributor(s): Pfenninger, Simone E. (Author), Singleton, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783097612 ISBN-13: 9781783097616 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching |
| Dewey: 418.007 |
| LCCN: 2016053116 |
| Series: Second Language Acquisition |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pfenninger, Simone E.: - 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). |