How special are early birds? : : Foreign language teaching and learning / / edited by Kevin McManus, Monika S. Schmid.

• Superior document: EuroSLA Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: McManus, Kevin,; Schmid, Monika S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Language Science Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: EuroSLA Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (iv, 232 pages)

This volume honours the academic achievements and scholarship of Professor Florence Myles as a world-leading scholar in the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and French Linguistics, in particular for her work in corpus-based SLA and language policy in primary school education. In addition to reviews of the field (e.g., primary languages policy in the UK), the volume presents new research studies reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current SLA research, including theory-building, corpus-based investigations, studies of language development, as well as informing teacher professional development through research. Taken together, this edited book provides a wide-ranging and balanced account of Myles's work and speaks to her influence on SLA research and primary languages policy. We invite readers to learn more about the fascinating research presented here as inspired by Florence's dedication to field.

Table of Contents

Preface Li Wei -- 1 Introduction and overview of the volume, Kevin McManus & Monika S. Schmid -- 2 Theroleof research in primary languages policy in the UK: The journey from policy to practice, Bernardette Holmes & Angela Tellier -- 3 Learning vocabulary in the primary languages classroom: What corpus analysis can tell us, Rosamond Mitchell & Sarah Rule -- 4 Research in primary languages: Contribution to teacher professional development, Alison Porter & Suzanne Graham -- 5 Metalinguistic awareness in early foreign language learning, Rowena Kasprowicz, Karen Roehr-Brackin & Gee Macrory -- 6 CLIL to make primary pupils click for languages: Lessons from Hackney, Emmanuelle Labeau & Raquel Tola Rego -- 7 Instructional practices in English-Chinese and English-Spanish kindergarten dual language immersion classrooms, Kevin McManus & Brody Bluemel -- 8 The impact of language learning on wider academic outcomes, Victoria Murphy & Hamish Chalmers -- 9 Earlyuse of null and overt subjects in L2 Spanish: Evidence from two oral tasks, Laura Domínguez & María J. Arche -- 10 Post scriptum, Roger Hawkins -- Index.