Andrew The Social Construction of Age

Adult Foreign Language Learners
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84769-616-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 63, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrew, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A First Glimpse of Age

Part I Framing Age as Socially Constructed

Chapter 1 The Age Factor and Second Language Acquisition

Chapter 2 Present-Day Approaches to the Study of Age

Chapter 3 Viewing Age through a Social Constructionist Lens

Part II The Social Construction of Age in Mexico

Chapter 4 Constructing Age in Later Adulthood

Chapter 5 Constructing Age in ‘Middle’ Adulthood

Chapter 6 Constructing Age in Young Adulthood

Final Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew, Patricia
Patricia Andrew is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and English as a Foreign Language at the National University of Mexico. Her research interests include identity construction, sociocultural perspectives on second language acquisition, and age studies.