Colin J. Flynn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Colin J. Flynn is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 5. Language “juggling” in children: Issues of age and methodology in multilingualism research Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research, Butler, Yuko Goto and Annamaria Pinter (eds.), pp. 78–95 | Chapter
In this chapter we explore the ramifications of the fact that young L2 beginners have less experience of language at large than older L2 beginners. One inference from this might be that older learners are linguistically advantaged. Much L2 literature, however, claims that pre-adolescents are… read more
2021 Language aptitude, language interaction and age of language learning: One researcher’s recent perspective Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:2, pp. 284–305 | Article
This article reviews David Singleton’s books and articles published during the period 2014–2020. The first section concerns a popular book which he co-authored with Vivian Cook; the second gives an account of articles covering questions about the concept of language aptitude; the third deals… read more