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Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency
Katarina Mentzelopoulos, Zoltán Dörnyei
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Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency
Katarina Mentzelopoulos, Zoltán Dörnyei
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It is generally understood that most language learners beyond a certain age are unlikely to ever reach nativelike proficiency in their second language. However, there exists a unique population of gifted adult learners who do triumph against all odds and achieve nativelike proficiency, and their learning experiences have thus far remained a largely untapped gold mine. The companion to Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency, this volume presents the autobiographical learning stories of 30 such exceptional individuals, opening a narrative window into their learning experiences. This rich corpus of success stories reveals the many steps of these language learning journeys and the learners' pathways to success. A fascinating and readable collection of personal stories, this volume will be of interest to non-specialist language learners as a motivational primer for their own studies as well as researchers working in language learning psychology, who will find the unique database of learner narratives a useful tool for future research.
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- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Endorsements
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 A Unique Bond
- 2 Escaping the Everyday
- 3 A New Generation
- 4 An Ear for Languages
- 5 The Desire to Blend In
- 6 Shifting Identities
- 7 Success Breeds Success
- Concluding Remarks
- Index