TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew,Patricia
TI  - TheSocial Construction of Age: Adult Foreign Language Learners 
T2  - Second Language Acquisition
SN  - 9781847696144
AV  - P118.2 .A55 2012
U1  - 401/.93 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Language and languages -- Age differences
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Age differences
KW  - Second language acquisition
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EFL
KW  - L2 learners
KW  - SLA
KW  - Second Language Acquisition
KW  - age and foreign language learning
KW  - age and second language
KW  - age factor
KW  - impact of age on language learning
KW  - older language learners
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 language and how they enact their age identities as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847696151
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847696151
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847696151/original
ER  -