33.3701, Books: Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Mentzelopoulos, Dörnyei

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Subject: 33.3701, Books: Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Mentzelopoulos, Dörnyei

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Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:51:25
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Mentzelopoulos, Dörnyei

 


Title: Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved
Nativelike Proficiency 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800414334 


Author: Katarina Mentzelopoulos
Author: Zoltán Dörnyei

Electronic: ISBN:  9781800414334 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 25
Electronic: ISBN:  9781800414334 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 15
Electronic: ISBN:  9781800414341 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 25
Electronic: ISBN:  9781800414341 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 15


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=165434




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