Children Learning Second Languages

by Annamaria Pinter

list of Tables Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART BACKGROUND TO CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND PEDAGOGY Theories of Child Development language learning Processes in First and Second languages Contexts for language Acquisition in Childhood PART OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH STUDIES Child SlA and Broad Overview of Approaches to Research Case Interactions between Research and Practice PART ISSUES IN FUTURE RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Exploring Ethical and Methodological Issues in Research Involving Children Some Feasible Studies for Future Research PART RESOURCES Resources in the Area of Child SlA and Pedagogy References Index

318 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 2011

About the author

Annamaria Pinter is a lecturer at the Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the University of Warwick, UK. Originally she comes from Hungary where she worked in a teacher training college specialising in ELT for young learners. She had several years of experience of teaching children of all ages in both state primary schools and private language schools in Hungary. For the last decade she has worked in the UK with international students at MA level, teaching courses related to ELT for young learners such as the psychology of language learning and teaching and materials and course design and evaluation for young learners.

She has supervised a wide variety of dissertations in the area of classroom research with young learners. She has also run practical workshops and training courses for teachers and teacher trainers both at Warwick and overseas and has a keen interest in teacher development. Her PhD research was about the benefits of task-based learning for children in EFL contexts.