Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning

An early start of foreign language (FL) teaching has been encouraged on the basis that the main gains in this period lie in the development of positive attitudes and motivation. But the view that those positive effects will remain unchanged over learners' language-learning trajectories is at od...

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Autor: Muñoz Lahoz, Carme
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/164888
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Palabra clave:Ensenyament de llengües
Adquisició d'una segona llengua
Anglès
Language teaching
Second language acquisition
English language
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spelling Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learningMuñoz Lahoz, CarmeEnsenyament de llengüesAdquisició d'una segona llenguaAnglèsLanguage teachingSecond language acquisitionEnglish languageAn early start of foreign language (FL) teaching has been encouraged on the basis that the main gains in this period lie in the development of positive attitudes and motivation. But the view that those positive effects will remain unchanged over learners' language-learning trajectories is at odds with the currently prevailing notion that motivation is a complex and evolutionary process that fluctuates over time. In fact, research has shown that the positive attitudes attested in the first years of primary school wane after a while. But we still know very little about young learners' motivational development, and longitudinal studies are very scarce. This 10-year longitudinal study looked at the trajectories of a group of young learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) from age 6 to age 16 using a mixed-methods design. It examined their outcomes in relation to their language-learning aptitude and motivation, and it observed the ways in which their levels of motivation rise and fall over time. The triangulation of data from different sources, and principally from yearly individual interviews, provided us with insights to better understand the role played by internal and external factors in those trajectories and some of the challenges for FL teaching to young learners.Cambridge University Press2017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/164888Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190517000095Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017, vol. 37, p. 168-184https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190517000095(c) Cambridge University Press, 2017info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1648882026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
spellingShingle Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
Muñoz Lahoz, Carme
Ensenyament de llengües
Adquisició d'una segona llengua
Anglès
Language teaching
Second language acquisition
English language
title_short Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
title_full Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
title_fullStr Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
title_full_unstemmed Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
title_sort Tracing trajectories of young learners. Ten years of school English learning
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Muñoz Lahoz, Carme
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ensenyament de llengües
Adquisició d'una segona llengua
Anglès
Language teaching
Second language acquisition
English language
topic Ensenyament de llengües
Adquisició d'una segona llengua
Anglès
Language teaching
Second language acquisition
English language
description An early start of foreign language (FL) teaching has been encouraged on the basis that the main gains in this period lie in the development of positive attitudes and motivation. But the view that those positive effects will remain unchanged over learners' language-learning trajectories is at odds with the currently prevailing notion that motivation is a complex and evolutionary process that fluctuates over time. In fact, research has shown that the positive attitudes attested in the first years of primary school wane after a while. But we still know very little about young learners' motivational development, and longitudinal studies are very scarce. This 10-year longitudinal study looked at the trajectories of a group of young learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) from age 6 to age 16 using a mixed-methods design. It examined their outcomes in relation to their language-learning aptitude and motivation, and it observed the ways in which their levels of motivation rise and fall over time. The triangulation of data from different sources, and principally from yearly individual interviews, provided us with insights to better understand the role played by internal and external factors in those trajectories and some of the challenges for FL teaching to young learners.
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