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TheSocial Construction of Age : Adult Foreign Language Learners / Patricia Andrew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrew, Patricia, Author.
- Series:
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and culture.
- Language and languages--Age differences.
- Second language acquisition.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Second language acquisition--Age differences.
- Language and languages.
- Local Subjects:
- Language and culture.
- Language and languages--Age differences.
- Second language acquisition.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-280-12091-6
- 9786613524775
- 1-84769-615-5
- OCLC:
- 777557668
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