Second Language Learning Before Adulthood : : Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents / / ed. by Vanessa De Wilde, Claire Goriot.

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• MitwirkendeR: Albert, Ágnes,; Carrai, Debora,; Christianson, Mark,; Cook, Megan,; Csizér, Kata,; Daal, V. H. P. van,; De Wilde, Vanessa,; Dóczi, Brigitta,; Eyckmans, June,; Gesa, Ferran,; Goriot, Claire,; Granfeldt, Jonas,; Hout, Roeland van,; Jiménez Catalán, Rosa M.,; Kangas, Sara E. N.,; Leona, N. L.,; Ohata, Kota,; Piniel, Katalin,; Rispens, J. E.,; Sayehli, Susan,; Snellings, P.,; Suárez, Maria del Mar,; Tijms, J.,; Van Koert, M. J. H.,; Van der Molen, M. W.,; Österberg, Rakel,
• HerausgeberIn: De Wilde, Vanessa,; Goriot, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 65
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 264 p.)

Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas such as language aptitude, language learning motivation and exposure to the language influence second language learning. Most of this research concerned ad...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Learning disabilities as external individual differences in second language acquisition
• The role of memory in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar in the first language and in English as a foreign language
• Individual differences and young learners’ L2 vocabulary development: The case of language aptitude and exposure to subtitled TV series
• ‘In love with English’: A mixed-methods investigation of Flemish children’s spontaneous engagement with out-of-school exposure
• The relation between out-of-school exposure to English and English vocabulary development in Dutch primary school pupils
• Lexical profiles of children and adolescent EFL learners in the semantic domain of animals
• The contribution of motivation and emotions to language learning autonomy in the Hungarian secondary school classroom: The results of a questionnaire study
• Effects of authentic communication experiences on linguistic self-confidence: Individual differences in perceptions among Japanese primary school students
• Emotion and motivation in younger learners’ second foreign language acquisition
• Secondary school pupils’ language choice satisfaction in the L3 classroom: The roles of teaching, motivation, language choice and language classroom anxiety
• Index