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TheSocial Construction of Age : Adult Foreign Language Learners / Patricia Andrew.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781847696144
  • 9781847696151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.93 23
LOC classification:
  • P118.2 .A55 2012
  • P118.2 .A55 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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