Second Language Acquisition and Emotion
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 12, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781403943163
Subjects: Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language
Description: A large-scale investigation on how multilinguals feel about their languages and use them to communicate emotion. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the author looks at the factors that affect multilinguals' self-perceived competence, attitudes, communicative anxiety, language choice and code-switching.