Intensive Exposure Experiences in Second Language Learning
β Scribed by Carmen MuΓ±oz (editor)
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 271
- Category
- Library
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β¦ 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.
β¦ 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 β Insights from the European Schools
Part 3: Learnersβ Perceptions and Intensive Exposure
7. The Significance of Intensive Exposure as a Turning Point in Learnersβ Histories
8. Change or Stability in Learnersβ 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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