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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Andrew Patricia"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"TheSocial Construction of Age : Adult Foreign Language Learners / / Patricia Andrew"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-12091-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613524775"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-84769-615-5"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (194 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Second Language Acquisition"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"401/.93"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Language and culture"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language and languages -- Age differences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Second language acquisition"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Sociolinguistics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Second language acquisition - Age differences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language and languages"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Languages & Literatures"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Philology & Linguistics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A First Glimpse of Age -- 1. The Age Factor and Second Language Acquisition -- 2. Present-Day Approaches to the Study of Age -- 3. Viewing Age through a Social Constructionist Lens -- 4. Constructing Age in Later Adulthood -- 5. Constructing Age in ‘Middle’ Adulthood -- 6. Constructing Age in Young Adulthood -- Final Reflections -- References -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in "]
[{"$nulls":4},"sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class."]