Pritchard Newcombe Social Context and Fluency in L2 Learners

The Case of Wales
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-85359-996-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

The focus in this book is on learners’ experiences using Welsh outside class but the issues discussed have implications for a wide range of other situations where the population is bilingual or multilingual and interaction takes place in a language of wider communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pritchard Newcombe, Lynda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Glossary
Opening Quotes
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Adult Language Learners
Chapter 3 The Learner’s Experience in the Community
Chapter 4 Beyond the Classroom – Cultural and Identity Issues
Chapter 5 Anxiety and Lack of Confidence
Chapter 6 Time and Opportunity
Chapter 7 Sustaining Motivation
Chapter 8 Conclusions and Recommendations
Bibliography
Appendix A

Über Autor(innen)

Pritchard Newcombe Lynda:
Dr Lynda Pritchard Newcombe is from South Wales and lives in Cardiff. She learned Welsh, her ancestral language as an adult and has extensive experience of teaching Welsh and German to adults. She has been involved in various research projects on L2 learning/use and bilingualism, most of which have been qualitative in nature; she has, however, collaborated in some quantitative studies with her husband, Professor Robert G. Newcombe. She also works as a freelance writer.Dr Lynda Pritchard Newcombe is from South Wales and lives in Cardiff. She learned Welsh, her ancestral language as an adult and has extensive experience of teaching Welsh and German to adults. She has been involved in various research projects on L2 learning/use and bilingualism, most of which have been qualitative in nature; she has, however, collaborated in some quantitative studies with her husband, Professor Robert G. Newcombe. She also works as a freelance writer.