Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

Contents
pp v-vi
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

Contributors
pp vii-xii
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

Introduction
pp xiii-xxiv
- By María Del Pilar García Mayo
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

1 - Factors Affecting the Speed of Word Retrieval in Children Learning English as a ForeignLanguage
pp 1-21
- By Ting Zhao, Victoria A. Murphy
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

2 - Raising Children’s Metalinguistic Awareness to Enhance Classroom Second Language Learning
pp 22-48
- By Angela Tellier, Karen Roehr-Brackin
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

3 - The Development of Language Awareness at the Transition from Primary to Secondary School
pp 49-68
- By Carmen Muñoz
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

4 - Learning How to Mean in Primary School CLIL Classrooms
pp 69-85
- By Ana Llinares
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

5 - Benefits and Limitations of Conversational Interactions among Young Learners of English in a CLIL Context
pp 86-102
- By Amparo Lázaro Ibarrola, María De Los Ángeles Hidalgo
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

6 - Gender and Age in Child Interaction in an EFL CLIL Context: An Exploratory Study
pp 103-123
- By Agurtzane Azkarai, Ainara Imaz Agirre
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

7 - Exploring Early EFL: L1 Use in Oral Narratives by CLIL and Non-CLIL Primary School Learners
pp 124-148
- By Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester, Alexandra Vraciu
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

8 - Narrative Development in L1 and FL: A Longitudinal Study among Young Chinese Learners of English
pp 149-175
- By Yuko Goto Butler, Yeting Liu, Heejin Kim
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

9 - A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Three EFL Young Learners’ Oral Output: The Development of Syntactic Complexity and Accuracy
pp 176-192
- By Anna Bret Blasco
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

10 - Reformulation as a Problem-Solving Space for Young EFL Writers: A Longitudinal Study of Language Learning Strategies
pp 193-222
- By Francisco Javier García Hernández, Julio Roca De Larios, Yvette Coyle
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

11 - A Questionnaire Study of Iranian Children’s Understanding of Intercultural Issues
pp 223-248
- By Annamaria Pinter, Samaneh Zandian
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

12 - Students’ and Teachers’ Feedback on Diagnostic Tests for Young EFL Learners: Implications for Classrooms
pp 249-266
- By Marianne Nikolov
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

Afterword
pp 267-270
- By Rhonda Oliver
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

Index
pp 271-276
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register Recommend to librarian
- Export citation

Metrics

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Why this information is here

This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

Accessibility Information

Accessibility compliance for the eReader version of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.

Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School

Research Insights

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-xii

Introduction
pp xiii-xxiv

1 - Factors Affecting the Speed of Word Retrieval in Children Learning English as a ForeignLanguage
pp 1-21

2 - Raising Children’s Metalinguistic Awareness to Enhance Classroom Second Language Learning
pp 22-48

3 - The Development of Language Awareness at the Transition from Primary to Secondary School
pp 49-68

4 - Learning How to Mean in Primary School CLIL Classrooms
pp 69-85

5 - Benefits and Limitations of Conversational Interactions among Young Learners of English in a CLIL Context
pp 86-102

6 - Gender and Age in Child Interaction in an EFL CLIL Context: An Exploratory Study
pp 103-123

7 - Exploring Early EFL: L1 Use in Oral Narratives by CLIL and Non-CLIL Primary School Learners
pp 124-148

8 - Narrative Development in L1 and FL: A Longitudinal Study among Young Chinese Learners of English
pp 149-175

9 - A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Three EFL Young Learners’ Oral Output: The Development of Syntactic Complexity and Accuracy
pp 176-192

10 - Reformulation as a Problem-Solving Space for Young EFL Writers: A Longitudinal Study of Language Learning Strategies
pp 193-222

11 - A Questionnaire Study of Iranian Children’s Understanding of Intercultural Issues
pp 223-248

12 - Students’ and Teachers’ Feedback on Diagnostic Tests for Young EFL Learners: Implications for Classrooms
pp 249-266

Afterword
pp 267-270

Index
pp 271-276

Metrics

Full text views

Book summary page views

Accessibility standard: Unknown

Why this information is here

Accessibility Information

Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School

Research Insights

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Full text views

Book summary page views

Accessibility standard: Unknown

Why this information is here

Accessibility Information