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Publication details [#58961]

Divita, David. 2014. Multilingualism from a lifespan perspective: case studies from a language workshop for Spanish seniors in Saint-Denis, France. The International Journal of Multilingualism 11 (1) : 1–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | ideology | language use | multilingualism | old age

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This discourse analysis of the metalinguistic conversations of Spanish seniors, attending a language and literacy course for seniors in France, clarifies the subjective and phenomenological factors that continue to form their linguistic repertoires and the ideologies that animate the ways in which they employ them.