Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School : Research Insights / María del Pilar García Mayo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Mayo, María del Pilar, Editor.

Series:

Second language acquisition ; 115.

Second Language Acquisition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching (Primary)--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Language and languages--Study and teaching (Primary).

Language and languages.

Language acquisition--Age factors.

Language acquisition.

Bilingualism in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, 2017.

Summary:

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1. Factors Affecting the Speed of Word Retrieval in Children Learning English as a Foreign Language

2. Raising Children's Metalinguistic Awareness to Enhance Classroom Second Language Learning

3. The Development of Language Awareness at the Transition from Primary to Secondary School

4. Learning How to Mean in Primary School CLIL Classrooms

5. Benefits and Limitations of Conversational Interactions among Young Learners of English in a CLIL Context

6. Gender and Age in Child Interaction in an EFL CLIL Context: An Exploratory Study

7. Exploring Early EFL: L1 Use in Oral Narratives by CLIL and Non-CLIL Primary School Learners

8. Narrative Development in L1 and FL: A Longitudinal Study among Young Chinese Learners of English

9. A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Three EFL Young Learners' Oral Output: The Development of Syntactic Complexity and Accuracy

10. Reformulation as a Problem-Solving Space for Young EFL Writers: A Longitudinal Study of Language Learning Strategies

11. A Questionnaire Study of Iranian Children's Understanding of Intercultural Issues

12. Students' and Teachers' Feedback on Diagnostic Tests for Young EFL Learners: Implications for Classrooms

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781783098125

1783098120

9781783098118

1783098112

OCLC:

989974829