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Direct linkFrancis, Norbert – MIT Press (BK), 2011
When two or more languages are part of a child's world, we are presented with a rich opportunity to learn something about language in general and about how the mind works. In this book, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Psychology, Language Aptitude, Child Development
Andrew, Patricia – Multilingual Matters, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Social Class, Age, Sociolinguistics, Second Languages
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Download full textJager, Sake, Ed.; Kurek, Malgorzata, Ed.; O'Rourke, Breffni, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Trinity College Dublin was proud to host, in April 2016, the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, with the theme "New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice." Over two and a half days, 150 participants offered 95 research presentations, posters, and "problem shared" sessions.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Cooperation, Higher Education, Educational Research
Hornberger, Nancy H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. This book is divided…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
Barkin, Florence, Ed.; And Others – 1982
Spanish, English, and American Indian languages in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and bilingualism and language contact in the region are addressed in a collection of articles. Approaches to research in the languages of this region are discussed in articles by Valdes, Lope Blanch, and Brandt. Cultural and sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingualism, College Second Language Programs
Bayley, Robert, Ed.; Schecter, Sandra R., Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers explores language socialization from very early childhood through adulthood. After "Introduction: Toward a Dynamic Model of Language Socialization" (Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter), there are 16 papers in 4 parts. Part 1, "Language Socialization at Home," includes: (1) "Transforming…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education
Riggins, Stephen Harold, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on "the other" in discourse includes: "The Rhetoric of Othering" (Stephen Harold Riggins); "Political Discourse and Racism: Describing Others in Western Parliaments" (Teun A. van Dijk); "'Das Ausland' and Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Discursive Construction of the Other" (Ruth Wodak);…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advertising, Afrocentrism, Anti Semitism
