Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School - 9781783098095

Channel View Publications Ltd

Learning Foreign Languages in Primary SchoolResearch Insights\nAuthor(s): Mara del Pilar Garca Mayo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781783098095, 978-1783098095\nSynopsis\nThis book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be o.