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Publication details [#60554]

Cáceres-Lorenzo, M. Teresa. 2015. Teenagers learning Chinese as a foreign language in a European Confucius Institute: the relationship between language learner strategies and successful learning factors. Language Awareness 24 (3) : 252–277.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | foreign language acquisition | gender | high school | monolingualism

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores the language learner strategies (LLS) of male and female, mono- and bilingual Chinese as a foreign language students (age: 14) in a Spanish Confucius Institute (Canary Islands). Bilingual students attain higher Young Chinese Test (YCT) academic scores, with the use of efficient strategies and an enhanced use of LLS in girls.