Literacy and Second Language Oracy - Oxford Applied Linguistics

Zusatztext '...this book makes a valuable contribution to SLA research and would be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of L2 teaching! learning! and literacy development.' Klappentext This book offers research evidence with a startling conclusion: language processing skills that have been assumed to be universal human traits appear instead to be a product of learners' experience with alphabetic print literacy. Zusammenfassung Learners who cannot decode alphabetic script have been left out of the SLA research enterprise! at considerable cost to our understanding of the human capacity for language learning. This book offers research evidence documenting the significant impact of low literacy skill on adolescents' processing of oral L2 input and acquisition. Together with a large body of closely related research in cognitive psychology! the findings lead to a startling conclusion: languageprocessing skills that have been assumed to be universal human traits appear instead to be a product of learners' experience with alphabetic print literacy.

Product details

• Authors: Martha Bigelow, Kit Hansen, Elaine Tarone
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.02.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780194423007
• ISBN: 978-0-19-442300-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Oxford Applied Lingusitics; Oxford Applied Linguistics; OHFLT; Oxford Applied Linguistics; Oxford Applied Lingusitics; OHFLT
• Subject: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English