Different Starting Points for English Language Learning: A Comparative Study of Danish and Spanish Young Learners

This study compared receptive English grammar skills of two groups of 7- and 9-year-old Danish children at the beginning of second language (L2) instruction in English, and two groups of Spanish/Catalan children of the same age after several years of instruction. The study examined the influence of...

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Published in:	Language learning 2018-12, Vol.68 (4), p.1076-1109
Main Authors:	Muñoz, Carmen, Cadierno, Teresa, Casas, Isabel
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Audiovisual materials Catalan language Children Children & youth cognate recognition Comparative Analysis Comparative studies crosslinguistic distance Danish language Dänemark Early second language learning Elementary School Students Empirische Forschung Englischunterricht English (Second Language) English as a second language learning English language Extracurricular Activities Foreign Countries Fremdsprachenunterricht Frühbeginn Gender Differences Grammar Grammatik Language acquisition Language Classification Learning Learning Processes Linguistic distance Native Language out‐of‐school contact Receptive Language receptive skills Romance Languages Schools second language Second Language Instruction Second Language Learning Skills Spanien Spanish Spanish language Tabelle Teaching Vergleichende Analyse Vocabulary Vocabulary Skills young learners
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