Starting age and other influential factors: Insights from learner interviews
Starting age and other influential factors: Insights from learner interviews
Author(s): Carmen MuñozSubject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne im. gen. broni Kazimierza Sosnkowskiego
Keywords: starting age; individual differences; interviews; language learning histories; motivation
Summary/Abstract: The present study uses oral interviews with foreign language learnersin search of influential factors in their language learning histories.A qualitative analysis of the interviews of these learners yields insights into their experience of foreign language learning and the role played in it by starting age and other significant factors such as motivation and intesive contact with the language.
Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Issue Year: IV/2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 465-484
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
