Advances in Second Language Learning and Literacy Acquisition
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 2974
Special Issue Editors
Interests: second language learning; bilingualism-minority language; working memory up-dating; prospective memory; metacognition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Several studies have focused on second language learning in adolescent and young adults learning a second language as undergraduate or college students (see, for example, Ganschow and Sparks, 1995; Sparks, 2016). However, in many countries, such as most European ones, a second language is taught since the beginning of primary school, or even in preschool, and is well integrated in the first approach to literacy. There are two most common perspectives from which a second language may be learned that deserve our attention. One is the learning process of a second language, often English, which starts at school in parallel with first language literacy acquisition. The second one is the process of literacy acquisition in a language that is second language for the child. This last case often refers to minority language bilingual children.
The overall aim of this Brain Sciences Special Issue is to disseminate and discuss recent advances in second language learning and literacy acquisition at school, with a focus on the following subtopics:
- Understanding the process of learning to read and write in English as second language in primary school for typical and atypical developing children;
- Understanding the role of cognitive and socioeconomical variables in second language literacy acquisition of minority language bilingual students and characterizing the peculiarities of the reading and writing profile in these populations;
- Motivational and emotional variables associated with second language learning in primary school.
We invite you to submit manuscripts in any of the following categories: original research (basic, laboratory-based, clinical, and applied research), review papers, and brief research reports.
Dr. Paola Palladino
Dr. Chiara Valeria Marinelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- second language learning
- second language literacy acquisition
- minority language bilingualism
- second language reading
- second language spelling
- second language comprehension
