Tasks, Pragmatics and Multilingualism in the Classroom : : A Portrait of Adolescent Writing in Multiple Languages / / Sofía Martín-Laguna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Martín-Laguna, Sofía,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Tasks, Pragmatics and Multilingualism in the Classroom: An Introduction -- 2. Pragmatics in Instructional Contexts -- 3. Multilingual Pragmatic Transfer -- 4. Doing Classroom Research in a Multilingual Context -- 5. Development of Pragmatic Transfer in Multilingual Learners -- 6. Effect of Proficiency Level on Pragmatic Transfer -- 7. Summary and Conclusion -- 8. Appendices -- References -- Index