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Channel View Publications Ltd Early Learning and Teaching of English New Dynamics of Primary English 2015 Edition by Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Marta Medved Krajnovic
This book offers an insight into the dynamics and complexities of learning and teaching English as a foreign language at primary level. Taking a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective, the chapters present the findings of longitudinal research undertaken in Croatia into the development of English in young learners. The book includes both qualitative and quantitative research and provides insights into internal individual learner factors and external micro and macro contextual factors which impact English learner development. Importantly, it tackles the unique position of English in today's globalised world in detail. It therefore makes a major contribution to work on learning English by the digitalised generation and to understanding the impact of practices in the modern EFL classroom. The volume will appeal to anyone interested in new ways of researching the complex and dynamic phenomenon of the early learning of English. Table of contents :- Introduction1. Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic: Context and Structure of the Study2. Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic: Individual Differences among Young EFL Learners: Age- or Proficiency-related? A Look from the Affective Learner Factors Perspective3. Visnja Josipovic Smojver: Croatian Primary School Pupils and English Pronunciation in the Light of the Emergence of English as a Lingua Franca4. Lovorka Zergollern-Miletic: Acquisition of the Markers of Definiteness and Indefiniteness in Early EFL5. Marta Medved Krajnovic and Irena Kocijan Pevec: Present Tense Development in 11- to 13-Year-Old EFL Learners 6. Smiljana Narancic Kovac and Ivana Milkovic: Associating Temporal Meanings with Past and Present7. Renata Geld: What Vocabulary Networks Reveal about Young Learners' Language8. Renata Samo: Receptive Skills in the Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Context of EFL Learning9. Stela Letica Krevelj and Marta Medved Krajnovic: Early EFL Development from a Dynamic Systems PerspectiveAfterword