TheSocial Construction of Age : : Adult Foreign Language Learners / / Patricia Andrew.
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 l...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Second Language Acquisition
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A First Glimpse of Age
- Part 1: Framing Age as Socially Constructed
- 1. The Age Factor and Second Language Acquisition
- 2. Present-Day Approaches to the Study of Age
- 3. Viewing Age through a Social Constructionist Lens
- Part 2: The Social Construction of Age in Mexico
- 4. Constructing Age in Later Adulthood
- 5. Constructing Age in ‘Middle’ Adulthood
- 6. Constructing Age in Young Adulthood
- Final Reflections
- References
- Index