ERIC Number: ED604482
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr-6
Pages: 176
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ISBN: 978-1-7889-2364-4
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Tasks, Pragmatics and Multilingualism in the Classroom: A Portrait of Adolescent Writing in Multiple Languages. Second Language Acquisition
Martín-Laguna, Sofía
Multilingual Matters
This book reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of pragmatic markers in written discourse in a third language (English) by secondary students living in the bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) Valencian Community in Spain. It examines pragmatic transfer, specifically positive transfer, in multilingual students from a holistic perspective, taking into account their linguistic repertoire and using ecologically valid classroom writing tasks in a longitudinal study. It tackles the issue of task-based language teaching from a multilingual perspective by presenting a study which takes place in natural classroom contexts where real classroom tasks are used to explore the interaction between languages in multilinguals. The book combines a focus on multilingual language development and pragmatics and discusses the resources multilingual learners take to the classroom.
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Secondary School Students, Spanish, Romance Languages, Transfer of Training, Task Analysis, Bilingualism, Writing (Composition), Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Holistic Approach
Multilingual Matters. Available from: Channel View Publications Ltd. St. Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK. Tel: +44 117 3158562; Fax: +44 117 3158563; e-mail: info@channelviewpublications.com; Web site: http://www.multilingual-matters.com
Publication Type: Books; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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