Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language »

María del Pilar García Mayo is Associate Professor of English linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her research interests include the acquisition of second language syntax both from a generative and an interactionist perspective. María Luisa García Lecumberri is Associate Professor of English phonetics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her research interests are intonation in English and Spanish and the acquisition of English by foreign learners.

The 12 contributing authors to this text attended a July 2000 course on the age factor in foreign language (FL) acquisition, held in San Sebastián, Spain. A section on theoretical issues gives an overview of the most current research on age in FL learning. Six chapters present fieldwork conducted in two bilingual communities where English is taught as a third/foreign language in instructional settings—the Basque Country and Catalonia—and consider such topics as attitudes toward learning English, code-mixing, grammaticality judgments, phonetics and phonology, writing, and oral communication skills. No subject index. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biography

María del Pilar García Mayo is Associate Professor of English linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her research interests include the acquisition of second language syntax both from a generative and an interactionist perspective. María Luisa García Lecumberri is Associate Professor of English phonetics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her research interests are intonation in English and Spanish and the acquisition of English by foreign learners.