Immigrant Pupils Learn English: A Cefr-Related Empirical Study of L2 Development

By David Little, Bronagh Atibu I, Bronagh Ćatibušić

It presents case studies which illustrate the often uncertain progress of pupils' language development and examines the wide range of variance across the sample. It also provides an analysis of the data as a whole, which reveals a number of regular patterns. The findings confirm that pupils' communicative capacity developed according to the functional trajectory proposed by the guidelines and derived from the CEFR; they also allow us to attach a great deal of linguistic detail to descriptors of underlying linguistic competence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107414563
• ISBN13: 9781107414563
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"