Victoria A. Murphy is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and leads the Research in English as an Additional Language research team.
`'Murphy provides a systematic analysis of different second
language learning contexts involving younger learners, closely
examining the strengths and weaknesses of these contexts. She also
provides useful practical and conceptual guidance for a better
understanding of these contexts, with the conviction that
bilingualism is an asset. Consequently, from whatever the setting
and position the reader is in, this is definitively a book to read
and to keep
close-by for an informative and consistent "bird's-eye view" of
young second language learners.''
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
'It is refreshing to read a book about young children learning
languages that lives fully up to its title... In this book,
although English receives a sizeable amount of attention, it is not
the only language treated and we are taken into an array of
different social and political circumstances in which learning a
language is central to a child's wellbeing...The reports of
research in this book set up comparisons and contrasts that offer
valuable new insights
and areas for reflection...
`The book's major contribution is that it attempts to gather
together research and to make the point that when we are dealing
with school-based learning, there is much in the messiness of the
contexts of real life to obscure or enrich what the Age Factor
brings to the debate and much that we can do through the use of
resources or the application of intelligence and good will to make
the best of the situation. I wish I could be sure that policy
makers as
well as teachers and research students would read the book and take
heed.'
'
Modern English Teacher
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