Language Learning and the Mother Tongue - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Epigraph

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors and Their Works

pp ix-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - The Mother Tongue and Second Language Learning

pp 13-90

1 - Entering into Language and into Languages

pp 15-38

2 - One Mother Tongue – or Two?

pp 39-57

3 - Embracing the Bilingual Overlap in Creative Second Language Learning

pp 58-79

Appendix A

pp 80-85

Appendix B

pp 86-90

Part II - From the Mother Tongue to the Second Mother Tongue

pp 91-120

4 - Language Diversity

pp 93-100

5 - Ohé, the Silent Teenager

pp 101-111

6 - Accent

pp 112-120

Part III - The Second Mother Tongue as a (M)other Tongue and the Return to the Body

pp 121-186

7 - The Sea of Language

pp 123-136

8 - Samuel Beckett’s Change of Literary Language

pp 137-170

9 - Language, the Brain, and Relating

pp 171-186

Subject Index

pp 187-190

Author Index

pp 191-192