Tasks, Pragmatics and Multilingualism in the Classroom

A Portrait of Adolescent Writing in Multiple Languages

• Author(s): Sofía Martín-Laguna,
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Pages: 176
• ISBN_10: 1788923669
  ISBN_13: 9781788923668
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching ,

Description:...

This book reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of pragmatic markers in written discourse in a third language (English) by secondary students living in the bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) Valencian Community in Spain. It examines pragmatic transfer, specifically positive transfer, in multilingual students from a holistic perspective, taking into account their linguistic repertoire and using ecologically valid classroom writing tasks in a longitudinal study. It tackles the issue of task-based language teaching from a multilingual perspective by presenting a study which takes place in natural classroom contexts where real classroom tasks are used to explore the interaction between languages in multilinguals. The book combines a focus on multilingual language development and pragmatics and discusses the resources multilingual learners take to the classroom.