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The Social Construction of Age: Adult Foreign Language Learners. Second Language Acquisition
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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