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Aging in a Second LanguageLate-Life Second Language Acquisition: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities

Aging in a Second Language: Late-Life Second Language Acquisition: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic... [This chapter introduces current literature on language acquisition and emphasizes the key factors scholars have identified as critical for later life second language development. In this chapter, conventional approaches in linguistics are examined for their work on the relationship between aging and language learning. Of particular interest to these traditional approaches is the role of cognition in the development of language. We emphasize, however, the call by social linguists who study how “safe” encounters mediate pressures experienced during second-language socialization and empower older immigrants in their cross-cultural engagements.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Aging in a Second LanguageLate-Life Second Language Acquisition: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-57608-4
Pages
47 –67
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-57609-1_4
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter introduces current literature on language acquisition and emphasizes the key factors scholars have identified as critical for later life second language development. In this chapter, conventional approaches in linguistics are examined for their work on the relationship between aging and language learning. Of particular interest to these traditional approaches is the role of cognition in the development of language. We emphasize, however, the call by social linguists who study how “safe” encounters mediate pressures experienced during second-language socialization and empower older immigrants in their cross-cultural engagements.]

Published: Jun 1, 2017

Keywords: Late-life second language acquisition; Cognition; Neurolinguistics; Critical period hypothesis; Late-life language learning; Memory; Deficit-model

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