Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning: Revisiting the Age Factor (Second Language Acquisition, 113) (Volume 113)

Combining advanced quantitative methods in classroom research with individual-level qualitative data, this study demonstrates that the capacity of late starters vastly surpasses popular expectations. It shows that age of onset is irrelevant for many aspects of language acquisition and that for a variety of reasons a later onset can be beneficial.

• | Author: Simone E. Pfenninger, David Michael Singleton
• | Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 559 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1783097612
• | ISBN-13: 9781783097616