Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School : : Research Insights / / 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 deve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Second Language Acquisition
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Table of Contents:
  • 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