A collection of papers reflecting the shift away from characterizing second language acquisition as either having, or not having, access to principles and parameters of Universal Grammar, and towards theories of putative L1 influence on the L2 learner.
Tej K. Bhatia William C. Ritchie Syracuse University It is often observed that
bilinguals mix and shift from one language to another like an individual driving a
stick shift car. Whenever deemed appropriate, they change gears between their
two ...
Review text: "The works in this collection make a valuable contribution to instructed SLA research."Shannon Sauro in: Studies in second language acquistion 4/2006.
Second language acquisition in a study abroad context: A comparative
investigation of the effects of study abroad and foreign language instruction on
the L2 learner's grammatical development Martin Howard This paper investigates
a ...
It was written for English as a second language educators, especially teachers
and prospective teachers who work with limited English proficient students of all language backgrounds. It provides a holistic picture of the many dimensions in ...
This volume explores how a second language is acquired and what learners must do in order to achieve proficiency. The paperback edition is a collection of original essays that approaches second language acquisition from a linguistic rather than a sociological, psychological, or purely pedagogical perspective. A wide range of viewpoints and approaches is represented. The essays in this book provide an incisive analysis of how a second language is acquired and what the second language learner must do mentally to achieve proficiency in another language. The chapters are arranged topically from those covering the broad area of theories of acquisition to those focusing specifically on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, and phonology in another language.
The second aim, which has taken precedence over the first one in recent years, is
to provide not only a description of what it is that native speakers unconsciously
know about their language but at the same time to explain how they come by ...
Second Language Acquisition: - introduces the key areas in the field, including: multilingualism, the role of teaching, the mental processing of multiple languages, and patterns of growth and decline - explores the key theories and debates and elucidates areas of controversy - gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Vivian Cook, William E. Dunn and James P. Lantolf, S.P. Corder, and Nina Spada and Patsy Lightbown. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Second Language Acquisition is an essential resource for students and researchers of applied linguistics.
In the previous units, we have looked at the ways an individual may process
information, and for the sake of the argument we have discussed these issues as
if all language learners were similar. However, there are enormous differences ...
This book provides an alternative to the "grammar debate" in second language acquisition theory and teaching. Accepting that language acquisition is at least partially input dependent, the author asks how grammatical form is processed in the input by second language learners and is it possible to assist this in ways that help the learner to create richer grammatical intake. He answers these questions and explains why traditional paradigms are not psycholinguistically motivated. Drawing on research from both first and second language acquisition, he outlines a model for input processing in second language acquisition that helps to account for how learners construct grammatical systems. He then uses this model to motivate "processing instruction," a type of grammar instruction in which learners are engaged in making form-meaning connections during particular input activities.
Some might argue that second language acquisition is an independent nonap-
plied discipline (Grass & Schachter, 1989, p. 4), that its goal is to explain how
second languages are learned. More particularly, the goal of second language ...
The education of second language teachers takes place across diverse contexts, levels, settings, and geographic regions. By bringing together research, theory, and best practices from a variety of contexts (ESL/EFL, foreign language, bilingual and immersion education), this book contributes to building meaningful professional dialogue among second-language teacher educators. Featuring an international roster of authors, the volume is comprised of 18 chapters organized in four thematic sections: the knowledge base of second language teacher education; second language teacher education contexts; collaborations in second language teacher education; and second language teacher education in practice. Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives is an essential professional resource for practicing and prospective second language teacher educators around the world.
LANGUAGE. TEACHER. EDUCATION. A central issue in teacher education is the
question ofwhat constitutes the knowledge base of teaching and how it relates to
the content and practice ofteacher education. What do teachers need to know ...
Divided into six parts that are devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA, this title contains chapters on universal grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic.
Knowledge of the lexicon of a language is generally seen as the core of
knowledge of that language, since lexical items contribute centrally not only to
the meaning of a sentence but to aspects of its form as well. Chapter 9 (''Second Language ...
This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner's age and so forth. These studies bolster the idea that a full account of SLA development (and, hence, a theory of SLA) must be built on not only detailed accounts of interlanguage data but also on a wide appeal to factors which govern the psycholinguistic bases of SLA. An important addition to the volume is a comprehensive guide to both the DOS and Macintosh versions of the VARBRUL statistical program used by variationists.
The relevance of sociolinguistics to second language acquisition (SLA) is twofold
. First, it is concerned with variation in language — the product, process,
acquisition, and cognitive location of such variation. Such matters are the focus of
this ...
Second language (L2) processing research complements that devoted to
understanding language structure, in which the focus is on describing the
phonological, lexical, and syntactic knowledge in the L2. It also complements
investigations of ...
