Language Learning and the Mother Tongue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009014242 ISBN 13: 9781009014243

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Innovative and interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the role of the mother tongue in second language learning. It brings together contributions from a diverse team of authors, to showcase a range of Francophone perspectives from the fields of linguistics, psychology, cross-cultural psychiatry, psychoanalysis, translation studies, literature, creative writing, the neurosciences, and more. The book introduces a major new concept: the (M)other tongue, and shows its relevance to language learning and pediatrics in a multicultural society. The first chapter explores this concept from different angles, and the subsequent chapters present a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, including counselling case studies, literary examples and creative plurilingual pedagogies, to highlight how this theory can inform practical approaches to language learning. Engaging and accessible, readers will find new ideas and methods to adopt to their own thinking and practices, whether their background is in language and linguistics, psychiatry, psychology, or neuroscience.

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About the Authors

Sara Greaves is Associate Professor in 20th and 21st century British Poetry, Translation Studies and Creative Writing. She has published a book on James Fenton (2016), and was co-winner of the Mustela Prize in social pediatrics for a Plurilingual Creative Writing Workshop in a Medical Centre (2014).

Monique De Mattia-Viviès is Professor of English linguistics. She has widely published in the field of Free Indirect Speech, and one of her books was awarded the Prix de la recherche by the SAES in 2006. She has recently published three grammar books for advanced students of English (2018 and 2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009014242
• ISBN 13: 9781009014243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206
• Editor: Greaves Sara