Language Learning and Leisure - Informal Language Learning in the Digital Age

The study of informal involvement with additional languages has recently emerged as a dynamic research field in SLA. With the rapid development and spread of internet-based technologies, contact with foreign languages outside the classroom has become commonplace. While this can take multiple forms, online contents are a major driving force because they present learners with unprecedented opportunities for exposure to and use of target languages regardless of their physical location. Research from diverse geographical, educational and socio-economic contexts bring a rich variety of perspectives to this book. It explores these phenomena via a range of theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches, focusing particularly on individual differences and language development. The volume proposes that teachers in formal learning settings should seek to support and facilitate the development of these identities and practices, and it indicates means they can adopt to best do so.

About the author

Denyze Toffoli, Univ. de Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier; Geoffrey Sockett, Univ. Paris Cité; Meryl Kusyk, Karlsruhe Univ. of Education.

Product details

• Assisted by: Meryl Kusyk (Editor), Geoffrey Sockett (Editor), Denyze Toffoli (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2024
• EAN: 9783110752342
• ISBN: 978-3-11-075234-2
• No. of pages: 426
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 36 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 870 g
• Illustrations: 37 b/w and 2 col. ill., 27 b/w tbl.
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; ISSN; Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA], 66
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures