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- Author: Patricia Andrew
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
- Year: 2012
- Pages: 180
- ISBN-10: 1847696139
- ISBN-13: 9781847696137
- Format: 14.7 x 20.8 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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 as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class.
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- Author: Patricia Andrew
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
- Year: 2012
- Pages: 180
- ISBN-10: 1847696139
- ISBN-13: 9781847696137
- Format: 14.7 x 20.8 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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 as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class.
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