Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning

Revisiting the Age Factor

AvSimone E. Pfenninger,David Singleton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:617 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Second Language Acquisition
Antal sidor:271
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781783097623

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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).David Singleton is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Hungary and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He has published widely on second language acquisition, multilingualism and lexicology and is co-author (with Vivian Cook) of Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition (2014, Multilingual Matters).

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This expansive, longitudinal study constitutes a major contribution to the ongoing debate over age in SLA. Through careful and sophisticated analyses, Pfenninger and Singleton present convincing evidence that late SLA confers specific linguistic, cognitive and affective advantages. Practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike will find many new insights here from which to question the ‘earlier is better’ mantra.

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AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Mapping the TerrainChapter 2: The Current Empirical StudyChapter 3: Age and (Statistical) AnalysisChapter 4: Age and Rate of AcquisitionChapter 5: Age and AffectChapter 6: Age and Cross-Linguistic InfluenceChapter 7: Age and Impact of Differential InputChapter 8: Age and Educational ImplicationsChapter 9: Conclusion and Future PerspectivesReferencesIndex