Intensive exposure experiences in second language learning / edited by Carmen Muñoz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muñoz, Carmen.

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England)

Second language acquisition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immersion method (Language teaching).

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Second language acquisition.

Education, Bilingual.

Physical Description:

xix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2012]

Summary:

Muñoz (English linguistics and applied linguistics, U. of Barcelona, Spain) compiles 11 studies dealing with second language learning in contexts that offer intensive exposure to the target language: long and short-term naturalistic immersion in an immigration or study-abroad situation, intensive instruction, and informal intensive environments in foreign language settings. Linguistics and English scholars from Canada and Europe discuss the effect of time distribution on learning; intensive programs in Quebec (their history, the effects of intensive instruction on different aspects of proficiency over time, challenges for francophone students of English in the simple past and the possessive determiners ?his/her,? and the nature of the language promoted in intensive programs); the context of European schools and outcomes of the second language learning process and the impact of curricular and extracurricular factors; learners' perceptions in relation to intensive exposure; learner's language gains in study-abroad experiences and settings at home; linguistic progress in oral and written skills in study-abroad and foreign instruction contexts; and the role of cross-language phonetic similarity perception in child, teen, and adult learners. The volume is aimed at applied linguists, second language researchers, academics, and graduate students in second language studies, psycholinguistics, and bilingualism, and teachers, language teacher educators, and policy makers. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847698056

1847698050

9781847698049

1847698042

9781847698063

1847698069

OCLC:

795575211