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Children Learning Second Languages is a four-part comprehensive guide to current research and debate related to second language learning in childhood, the age factor and the relationship between research and classroom practice. * Part 1 covers child development, L1 and L2 language learning processes in childhood and offers a guide to contexts from foreign language learning at school to immersion education and bilingual/trilingual acquisition at home. * Part 2 gives a bird's eye view of current research in the area of child SLA and pedagogy highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of different traditions and types of research. This is followed by a close examination of eight case studies. * Part 3 is devoted to issues of future research priorities by discussing methodological and ethical difficulties in child focused research and outlining 15 feasible studies for the future. * Part 4 offers some resources including hands-on teaching materials, handbooks, theoretical books, details of organizations and projects in the broad area of child second language learning.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

• Full title: Children Learning Second Languages
• Author: Annamaria Pinter
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780230203426
• ISBN: 0230203426
• ID: 04039783
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 142 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2011

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