Theory and Practice 
of 

Second Language Acquisition

Vol. 2 (1) 2016

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2016



Editors-in-Chief
Danuta Gabryś-Barker

University of Silesia
Adam Wojtaszek

University of Silesia

Language Editor
David Schauffler

University of Silesia

Editorial Board

 Janusz Arabski  (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw)
Larissa Aronin (Oranim College of Higher Education/Trinity College, Dublin)
Jasone Cenoz Iraqui (University of the Basque Country, Donostia – San Sebastian)
Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin)
Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls)
Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck)
Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw)
Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney)
Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional 

Education, Konin)
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (University of Opole, Opole)
Andrzej Porzuczek (University of Silesia, Katowice)
David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin/University of Pannonia, Veszprem)
Eva Vetter (University of Vienna, Vienna)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź, Łódź)
Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia, Katowice)



Contents

Preface (Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Adam Wojtaszek)     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .      5
Simone E. Pfenninger, David Singleton

The Age Factor in the Foreign Language Class: What Do Learners Think?      .      7
Jan Pikhart

On Non-Native Speaker E-mail Communication from a Genre Perspective  .    .    25
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Peter MacIntyre, Carmen Boudreau, Livia Dewaele

Do Girls Have All the Fun? Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language
Classroom     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .     41

Teresa Maria Włosowicz
Multilingual Processing Phenomena in Learners of Portuguese as a Third
or Additional Language  .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    65

Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia
Code-Switching Practices among Immigrant Polish L2 Users of English     .    .     87

Beata Grymska
New Conceptualizations of Language Aptitude—The Potential of Working Memory
in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    103