TY - BOOK
T1 - L2 listening at work
T2 - A qualitative study of international employees’ experiences with understanding Danish as a second language
AU - Øhrstrøm, Charlotte
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This dissertation
on adult second language (L2) learning investigates individual learners’
experiences with listening in Danish as an L2 in everyday situations at work. More specifically, the
study explores when international employees, who work at international companies in Denmark
with English as a corporate language, listen in Danish at work, how they handle these situations,
what problems they experience, and why some situations are more difficult to listen in than
others.
The study
makes use of
qualitative research methods and theoretical aspects from
psycholinguistic approaches as well as socially oriented approaches within the research field of
Second Language Acquisition (SLA).
AB - This dissertation
on adult second language (L2) learning investigates individual learners’
experiences with listening in Danish as an L2 in everyday situations at work. More specifically, the
study explores when international employees, who work at international companies in Denmark
with English as a corporate language, listen in Danish at work, how they handle these situations,
what problems they experience, and why some situations are more difficult to listen in than
others.
The study
makes use of
qualitative research methods and theoretical aspects from
psycholinguistic approaches as well as socially oriented approaches within the research field of
Second Language Acquisition (SLA).
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - L2 listening at work
PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
ER -