Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School : : Research Insights / / ed. by María del Pilar García Mayo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Agirre, Ainara Imaz,; Azkarai, Agurtzane,; Blasco, Anna Bret,; Butler, Yuko Goto,; Coyle, Yvette,; Hernández, Francisco Javier García,; Hidalgo, María de los Ángeles,; Ibarrola, Amparo Lázaro,; Kim, Heejin,; Larios, Julio Roca de,; Liu, Yeting,; Llinares, Ana,; Murphy, Victoria A.,; Muñoz, Carmen,; Nikolov, Marianne,; Oliver, Rhonda,; Pinter, Annamaria,; Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet,; Roehr-Brackin, Karen,; Tellier, Angela,; Vraciu, Alexandra,; Zandian, Samaneh,; Zhao, Ting,
• HerausgeberIn: García Mayo, María del Pilar,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction --; 1. Factors Affecting the Speed of Word Retrieval in Children Learning English as a Foreign Language --; 2. Raising Children's Metalinguistic Awareness to Enhance Classroom Second Language Learning --; 3. The Development of Language Awareness at the Transition from Primary to Secondary School --; 4. Learning How to Mean in Primary School CLIL Classrooms --; 5. Benefits and Limitations of Conversational Interactions among Young Learners of English in a CLIL Context --; 6. Gender and Age in Child Interaction in an EFL CLIL Context: An Exploratory Study --; 7. Exploring Early EFL: L1 Use in Oral Narratives by CLIL and Non-CLIL Primary School Learners --; 8. Narrative Development in L1 and FL: A Longitudinal Study among Young Chinese Learners of English --; 9. A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Three EFL Young Learners' Oral Output: The Development of Syntactic Complexity and Accuracy --; 10. Reformulation as a Problem-Solving Space for Young EFL Writers: A Longitudinal Study of Language Learning Strategies --; 11. A Questionnaire Study of Iranian Children's Understanding of Intercultural Issues --; 12. Students' and Teachers' Feedback on Diagnostic Tests for Young EFL Learners: Implications for Classrooms --; Afterword --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781783098118; 9783110663129; 9783110606706
• DOI: 10.21832/9781783098118
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by María del Pilar García Mayo.

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.