Adult Minority Language Learning

Descripción

This book explores the role of attitude, motivation and identity in the process of learning a minority language, specifically the attitudes of adult learners of Irish towards acquiring various traditional (Gaeltacht) and non-traditional (second language) varieties of the language. The book offers new insights into motivation, identity and target variety in adult minority language learning and will be of interest to researchers in sociolinguistics, language revitalization and second language acquisition.