The Social Construction of Age : Adult Foreign Language Learners
Patricia. ANDREW
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Clevedon : : Channel View Publications, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (194 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A First Glimpse of Age; Part 1 Framing Age as Socially Constructed; 1 The Age Factor and Second Language Acquisition; 2 Present-Day Approaches to the Study of Age; 3 Viewing Age through a Social Constructionist Lens; Part 2 The Social Construction of Age in Mexico; 4 Constructing Age in Later Adulthood; 5 Constructing Age in 'Middle' Adulthood; 6 Constructing Age in Young Adulthood; Final Reflections; References; Index. - This book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chr
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| Emner | Language and languages
Language and culture. Language and languages -- Age differences. Second language acquisition. Vis mer... Sociolinguistics.
Languages & Literatures Philology & Linguistics språklæring eldre livslang læring alder sla second language aquisition |
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| ISBN | 9781847696137. - 9781847696144
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