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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
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Rosen, Russell S. – Sign Language Studies, 2010
There is an exponential growth in the number of schools that offer American Sign Language (ASL) for foreign language credit and the different ASL curricula that were published. This study analyzes different curricula in its assumptions regarding language, learning, and teaching of second languages. It is found that curricula vary in their…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, American Sign Language