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Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency / Katarina Mentzelopoulos, Zoltán Dörnyei.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mentzelopoulos, Katarina, Author.
- Dörnyei, Zoltán, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Identity (Psychology).
- Motivation in education.
- Second language acquisition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book recounts the fascinating stories of 30 language learners who triumphed against all odds to achieve nativelike proficiency, opening a narrative window into their learning experiences. This rich corpus of success stories will appeal to language learners and researchers as a motivational primer for their own studies.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 A Unique Bond
- 2 Escaping the Everyday
- 3 A New Generation
- 4 An Ear for Languages
- 5 The Desire to Blend In
- 6 Shifting Identities
- 7 Success Breeds Success
- Concluding Remarks
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Dez 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-80041-433-1
- OCLC:
- 1348482688
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