Starting age and other influential factors: Insights from learner interviews

dc.contributor.authorMunoz, Carmen
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-28T15:34:35Z
dc.date.available2014-11-28T15:34:35Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.description.abstractThe present study uses oral interviews with foreign language learners in search of influential factors in their language learning histories. The sample for the study was drawn from a larger sample of intermediate/advanced learners of English as a foreign language with a minimum of 10 years of exposure/instruction. The sam- ple includes 6 early learners (range of starting age: 3.2-6.5) and 6 late learners (starting age: 11+). Half of them in each group were among those with the highest scores on two English language tests in the larger sample and half among those with the lowest scores on those same tests. A qualitative analysis of the interviews of these learners yields insights into their experience of foreign language learning and the role played in it by starting age and other significant factors, such as motivation and intensive contact with the language.pl_PL
dc.description.articlenumber5pl_PL
dc.description.journaltitleStudies in Second Language Learning and Teachingpl_PL
dc.description.number3pl_PL
dc.description.pageof465pl_PL
dc.description.pageto484pl_PL
dc.description.volume4pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014, vol. 4, no. 3, pp.465-484pl_PL
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2014.4.3.5
dc.identifier.issn2083-5205
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/12236
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherZakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszupl_PL
dc.subjectindividual differences
dc.subjectlanguage learning histories
dc.subjectmotivation
dc.subjectstarting agepl_PL
dc.titleStarting age and other influential factors: Insights from learner interviewspl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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