Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency
eBook - ePub

Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency

About this book

It is generally understood that most language learners beyond a certain age are unlikely to ever reach nativelike proficiency in their second language. However, there exists a unique population of gifted adult learners who do triumph against all odds and achieve nativelike proficiency, and their learning experiences have thus far remained a largely untapped gold mine. The companion to Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency, this volume presents the autobiographical learning stories of 30 such exceptional individuals, opening a narrative window into their learning experiences. This rich corpus of success stories reveals the many steps of these language learning journeys and the learners' pathways to success. A fascinating and readable collection of personal stories, this volume will be of interest to non-specialist language learners as a motivational primer for their own studies as well as researchers working in language learning psychology, who will find the unique database of learner narratives a useful tool for future research.

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Yes, you can access Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency by Katarina Mentzelopoulos,Zoltán Dörnyei,Capucine Trotignon in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Psycolinguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Endorsements
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 A Unique Bond
  11. 2 Escaping the Everyday
  12. 3 A New Generation
  13. 4 An Ear for Languages
  14. 5 The Desire to Blend In
  15. 6 Shifting Identities
  16. 7 Success Breeds Success
  17. Concluding Remarks
  18. Index