Second Language Acquisition

A Portrait of Adolescent Writing in Multiple Languages

By: Sofía Martín-Laguna

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Hardcover | 6 April 2020

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176 Pages

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This book reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of pragmatic markers in written discourse in a third language (English) by secondary students living in the bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) Valencian Community in Spain. It examines pragmatic transfer, specifically positive transfer, in multilingual students from a holistic perspective, taking into account their linguistic repertoire and using ecologically valid classroom writing tasks in a longitudinal study. It tackles the issue of task-based language teaching from a multilingual perspective by presenting a study which takes place in natural classroom contexts where real classroom tasks are used to explore the interaction between languages in multilinguals. The book combines a focus on multilingual language development and pragmatics and discusses the resources multilingual learners take to the classroom.

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The book is a much-needed perspective into an understanding of pragmatics as a multilingual endeavor in which speaking more than one language is seen as an asset. It contributes to the existing knowledge of pragmatic learning in instructional contexts and shows how writing tasks can be an effective pedagogic tool for the development of L2 pragmatic learning.

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