TheSocial Construction of Age : Adult Foreign Language Learners / / Patricia Andrew
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| Autore: |
Andrew Patricia
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| Titolo: |
TheSocial Construction of Age : Adult Foreign Language Learners / / Patricia Andrew
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| Pubblicazione: | Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012] |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401/.93 |
| Soggetto topico: | Language and culture |
| Language and languages -- Age differences | |
| Second language acquisition | |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Second language acquisition - Age differences | |
| Language and languages | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| Philology & Linguistics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | TheSocial Construction of Age |
| ISBN: | 1-280-12091-6 |
| 9786613524775 | |
| 1-84769-615-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457652403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Second Language Acquisition