In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual…
This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization, a classic problem of second language acquisition. It covers a wide range of perspectives …
Focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms, this volume calls for a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient & aspiring bilinguals do naturally, & as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual c…