Early Learning of Modern Foreign Languages: Processes and Outcomes

✍ Scribed by Marianne Nikolov (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few studies focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book examines current research on young language learners and provides key insights into how young learners progress.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. A Third Language at Primary Level in Ireland: An Independent Evaluation of the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative
2. Can Today’s Early Language Learners in England Become Tomorrow’s Plurilingual European Citizens?
3. Young Learners of Croatian as a Second Language: Minority Language Speakers and Their Croatian Competence
4. Young Learners’ Cognitive Skills and Their Role in Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning
5. An Investigation into the Relationship of L2 Motivation and Cross-cultural Contact Among Elementary School Students
6. Impact of Learning Conditions on Young FL Learners’ Motivation
7. Early Modern Foreign Language Programmes and Outcomes: Factors Contributing to Hungarian Learners’ Profi ciency
8. Using the Early Years Literacy Programme in Primary EFL Norwegian Classrooms
9. The Age Factor and L2 Reading Strategies
10. A Study of FL Composing Process and Writing Strategies Employed by Young Learners
11. How do 9–11-Year-Old Croatians Perceive Sounds and Read Aloud in French?
12. Differences Between the Processes and Outcomes in Third Graders’ Learning of English and Ukrainian in Hungarian Schools in Beregszász
13. The Growth of Young Learners’ English Vocabulary Size
14. Factors Infl uencing Young Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
15. An Eye on Target Language Use in Elementary English Classrooms in China
16. What Primary School Pupils Think About Learning English as a Foreign Language