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Intensive Exposure Experiences in Second Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Carmen Muñoz (editor)


Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Leaves
271
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This volume brings together studies from learning contexts that provide intensive exposure to the target language: naturalistic immersion (immigration and study abroad), intensive instruction, and informal intensive environments in foreign language settings. Its chapters highlight the unique role of intensive exposure in second language learning.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of Intensive Learning
1. Is Intensive Learning Effective? Reflecting on the Results from Cognitive Psychology and the Second Language Acquisition Literature
Part 2: Intensive Instruction
2. Intensive L2 Instruction in Canada: Why not Immersion?
3. Closing the Gap: Intensity and Proficiency
4. When Comprehensible Input is not Comprehensive Input: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Instructional Input in Intensive English as a Foreign Language
5. What Language is Promoted in Intensive Programs? Analyzing Language Generated from Oral Assessment Tasks
6. Time and Amount of L2 Contact Inside and Outside the School – Insights from the European Schools
Part 3: Learners’ Perceptions and Intensive Exposure
7. The Significance of Intensive Exposure as a Turning Point in Learners’ Histories
8. Change or Stability in Learners’ Perceptions as a Result of Study Abroad
Part 4: Naturalistic Immersion
9. The Impact of Study Abroad and Age on Second Language Accuracy Development
10. Oral and Written Development in Formal Instruction and Study Abroad: Differential Effects of Learning Context
11. Differences in L2 Segmental Perception: The Effects of Age and L2 Learning Experience
Index


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