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The Dynamic Multicausality of Age of First Bilingual Language Exposure: Evidence from a Longitudinal Content and Language Integrated Learning Study with Dense Time Serial Measurements
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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study reveals hitherto overlooked effects of age of onset (AO) in immersive school contexts, using multiple measures over time so as to focus on fluctuations and trends in individual data. The second language (L2) English development was studied in 91 children who received 50-50 content and language integrated learning (CLIL) instruction in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, English (Second Language)
Negotiation of Meaning Strategies in Child EFL Mainstream and CLIL Settings
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Azkarai, Agurtzane; Imaz Agirre, Ainara – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
Research on child English as a second language (ESL) learners has shown the benefits of task-based interaction for the use of different negotiation of meaning (NoM) strategies, which have been claimed to lead to second language learning. However, research on child interaction in foreign language settings is scarce, specifically research on a new…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Age Differences
Age and Type of Instruction (CLIC vs. Traditional EFL) in Lexical Development
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Augustín-Llach, María Pilar – International Journal of English Studies, 2016
The present paper compares the vocabulary development of a group of CLIL and of traditional EFL learners along three years. The observation that a CLIL approach might provide with larger benefits in the long-run vocabulary is the starting point of this study. We had learners in the two groups complete a letter-writing task. These writings were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Word Frequency