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Language Learning Environments : Spatial Perspectives on SLA.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol : Channel View Publications, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (165 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781788924917
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language Learning EnvironmentsOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/BENSON4900 -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Where of Second Language Learning -- Figure 2.1 Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam -- 2 Theories of Space -- Figure 3.1 Standardisation and spatialisation -- 3 Linguistics and the Spatiality of Language -- Figure 4.1 A multilingual language-bearing assemblage in motion, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong -- 4 Language-Bearing Assemblages -- Figure 5.1 In the year 2000: At School, by Jean-Marc Côté (1901) -- 5 Language Learning Environments -- Figure 6.1 A heritage language learner's experience of learning Macedonian in Sydney -- 6 Space and SLA Research -- References -- Index.
Summary: This book is the first in-depth examination of the application of theories of space to issues of second language learning. The author outlines a new conceptual framework for researching SLA that centres on the idea of 'language learning environments' and demonstrates that where people learn languages is equally as important as how they do so.
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Intro -- DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/BENSON4900 -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Where of Second Language Learning -- Figure 2.1 Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam -- 2 Theories of Space -- Figure 3.1 Standardisation and spatialisation -- 3 Linguistics and the Spatiality of Language -- Figure 4.1 A multilingual language-bearing assemblage in motion, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong -- 4 Language-Bearing Assemblages -- Figure 5.1 In the year 2000: At School, by Jean-Marc Côté (1901) -- 5 Language Learning Environments -- Figure 6.1 A heritage language learner's experience of learning Macedonian in Sydney -- 6 Space and SLA Research -- References -- Index.

This book is the first in-depth examination of the application of theories of space to issues of second language learning. The author outlines a new conceptual framework for researching SLA that centres on the idea of 'language learning environments' and demonstrates that where people learn languages is equally as important as how they do so.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.