Language Learning and the Mother Tongue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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Sara Greaves (Université d'Aix-Marseille) Monique De Mattia-Viviès (Université d'Aix-Marseille)

Language Learning and the Mother Tongue

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Sara Greaves (Université d'Aix-Marseille), Monique De Mattia-Viviès (Université d'Aix-Marseille)

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Cambridge University Press
07 March 2024

Language acquisition; Literary theory; Applied linguistics for ELT; Child & developmental psychology

Innovative and interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the role of the mother tongue in second language learning. It brings together contributions from a diverse team of authors, to showcase a range of Francophone perspectives from the fields of linguistics, psychology, cross-cultural psychiatry, psychoanalysis, translation studies, literature, creative writing, the neurosciences, and more. The book introduces a major new concept: the (M)other tongue, and shows its relevance to language learning and pediatrics in a multicultural society. The first chapter explores this concept from different angles, and the subsequent chapters present a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, including counselling case studies, literary examples and creative plurilingual pedagogies, to highlight how this theory can inform practical approaches to language learning. Engaging and accessible, readers will find new ideas and methods to adopt to their own thinking and practices, whether their background is in language and linguistics, psychiatry, psychology, or neuroscience.

Edited by: Sara Greaves (Université d'Aix-Marseille), Monique De Mattia-Viviès (Université d'Aix-Marseille)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009014243
ISBN 10: 1009014242
Pages: 205
Publication Date: 07 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Sara Greaves and Monique De Mattia-Viviès; Part I. The Mother Tongue and Second Language Learning. 1. Entering into Language and into Languages: from the Mother Tongue to the (M)other Tongue Monique De Mattia-Viviès; 2. One Mother Tongue – or Two? Jean-Jacques Lecercle; 3. Embracing the Bilingual Overlap in Creative Second Language Learning Sara Greaves; Part II. From the Mother Tongue to the Second Mother Tongue. 4. Language Diversity: Time for a New Paradigm Marie Rose Moro and Rahmeth Radjack; 5. Ohé, The Silent Teenager Nathalie Enkelaar; 6. Accent – a Ghost in the Language Alain Fleischer; Part III. The Second Mother Tongue as a (M)other Tongue and the Return to the Body. 7. The Sea of Language Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt; 8. Samuel Beckett's Change of Literary Language: An Apparent Severing of Links to Continue Writing on the Maternal Side of Language Yoann Loisel; 9. Language, the Brain and Relating Boris Cyrulnik; Subject Index; Name Index.

Sara Greaves is Associate Professor in 20th and 21st century British Poetry, Translation Studies and Creative Writing. She has published a book on James Fenton (2016), and was co-winner of the Mustela Prize in social pediatrics for a Plurilingual Creative Writing Workshop in a Medical Centre (2014). Monique De Mattia-Viviès is Professor of English linguistics. She has widely published in the field of Free Indirect Speech, and one of her books was awarded the Prix de la recherche by the SAES in 2006. She has recently published three grammar books for advanced students of English (2018 and 2019).