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Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights
Mar A D Garc A Mayo
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Description for Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Second Language Acquisition
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783098095
SKU
V9781783098095
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About Mar A D Garc A Mayo
Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. She is the convener of the research group Language and Speech (http://www.laslab.org) and the academic director of the MA in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings. Her research interests include the second/third language acquisition of English morphosyntax, the study of conversational ... Read more
Reviews for Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights
This volume is packed with rich findings, revealing many new research directions for the reader to explore. This is surely a must-read for teachers and researchers in many parts of the world.
Janet Enever, University of Reading, UK
Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:1:1
This volume responds to the need for evidence-based insights on the learning and ... Read more
Janet Enever, University of Reading, UK
Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:1:1
This volume responds to the need for evidence-based insights on the learning and ... Read more