critical age

Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Series Editor: Professor David Singleton, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
This new series will bring together titles dealing with a variety of aspects of language acquisition and processing in situations where a language or languages other than the native language is involved. Second language will thus be interpreted in its broadest possible sense. The volumes included in the series will all in their different ways offer, on the one hand, exposition and discussion of empirical findings and, on the other, some degree of theoretical reflection. In this latter connection, no particular theoretical stance will be privileged in the series; nor will any relevant perspective – sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, etc. – be deemed out of place. The intended readership of the series will be final-year undergraduates working on second language acquisition projects, postgraduate students involved in second language acquisition research, and researchers and teachers in general whose interests include a second language acquisition component.
Other Books in the Series
Effects of Second Language on the First
Vivian Cook (ed.)
Learning to Request in a Second Language: A Study of Child Interlanguage
Pragmatics
Machiko Achiba
Portraits of the L2 User
Vivian Cook (ed.)
Other Books of Interest
Audible Difference: ESL and Social Identity in Schools
Jennifer Miller
Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning
Michael Byram and Peter Grundy (eds)
Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
J. Cenoz, B. Hufeisen and U. Jessner (eds)
Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice
Michael Byram, Adam Nichols and David Stevens (eds)
English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language
Jasone Cenoz and Ulrike Jessner (eds)
How Different Are We? Spoken Discourse in Intercultural Communication
Helen Fitzgerald
Language and Society

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