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Twelve Lectures on Second Language Acquisition

Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Perspectives

We're going to ask how it comes about that humans can language (yes, you can
in fact use 'language' as a verb - at least I can). And we shall start by looking at LI
acquisition or learning, because that's where the so-called problem of language ...

Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading

Emphasis is on English as a second language.

"general purpose" texts that don't demand specialized information which readers
may have in varying degrees, they find that discipline- specific information
possessed by the second language reader dramatically interacts with the ...

Second Language Writing Systems

Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book for the first time presents the effects of writing systems on second language reading and writing and on second language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems.

VIVIAN COOK Since the decline of audiolingualism as a teaching method, there
has been little public debate about the respective roles of spoken language and
written language in language teaching or about how to teach the writing system ...

Insights Into Second Language Reading

A Cross-Linguistic Approach

Reading is a multi-faceted, complex construct, and its complexity increases in second-language reading. In this volume, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the multiple dimensions of second language reading, presenting syntheses of current research on first and second language reading. (Miswest).

Language transfer has long been a central concern among L2 researchers. As
an outgrowth of the contrastive analysis (CA) hypothesis, transfer concepts were
widely endorsed in the 1950s and 1960s. Their basic hypothesis, a derivative of ...

Evaluating Second Language Education

Responsibility for planning language teaching programs now carries with it a strong element of accountability. Evaluation of the whole process of course design, development, and implementation is therefore a necessary area of activity for course designers, language planners, and researchers. This book brings together accounts of recent work in this increasingly important field and will be a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training. Part One presents a review of the literature, covering past developments in the wider field of educational evaluation, as well as specifically in second language education. Part Two contains a series of eight original case-studies, written by scholars involved in evaluations in widely divergent settings. The focus in each case is on how the evaluator addresses the difficulties central to each study, and the findings are also included. The final Part Three provides practical guidance for evaluators, offering suggestions about how to set up and carry out evaluations in any given setting.

PART I Evaluation of language education: an overview Alan Beretta Introduction
This chapter has two principal aims. The first is to provide a review of previous
evaluation studies in foreign language teaching, so that future evaluations may
be ...

Second Language Conversations

"This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'nonnative speakers' as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users' conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for 'ethnomethodological respecification' in second language research." Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become widespread in the globalized world. Migration, increased travel for business or pleasure, as well as communication through new technologies such as the internet make Second Language Conversations an increasingly common everyday event. In this book Conversation Analysis is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from controlled contexts such as the classroom towards more sociable environments in which people go about their daily routines. English, German, French, Japanese, Finnish and Danish are all analyzed as second languages within a variety of professional, educational and sociable situations. This collection of essays aims to present naturally occurring Second Language Conversations in order to show what speakers in these situations do; how they utilize first language conversational practices, and whether or not grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation help or hinder the construction of meaning. >

Language. Learners. -. Being. a. Second. Language. Speaker. in. Institutional.
Interaction. Salla Kurhila In the conversation analytic tradition, the salience of the
participants' identities is seen as being dynamic. The relevance of the identities is
 ...

Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown by the fact that the two disciplines have established themselves as areas of study not only distinct from each other, but also different from linguistic theory. This was not always the case, at least not in the United States. The anomaly results from the fact that this book deals with the relationship between L2 theory and pedagogy despite the conclusion that there is currently no widely-accepted theory of SLA. Grouped into five sections, the papers in this volume: * consider questions about L2 theory and pedagogy at the macro-level, from the standpoint of the L2 setting; * consider input in terms of factors which are internal to the learner; * examine the question of external factors affecting the input, such as the issue of whether points of grammar can be explicitly taught; * deal with questions of certain complex, linguistic behaviors and the various external and social variables that influence learners; and * discuss issues surrounding the teaching of pronunciation factors that affect a non-native accent.

INTRODUCTION In order to arrive at a theory of L2 acquisition, it is essential to
have a theory of what it is that the learner acquites; in other words, a theory of
language (a linguistic theory) is necessary (Gregg, 1989; White, 1989).
Furthermore ...

Teaching English as a Second Language

Has English literature a place in the teaching of English as a second- language?
The question is relevant in view of the fact that there are educationists in the
country who make much of the concept of English as a 'library language". By
treating ...

Second Language Task Complexity

Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of Language Learning and Performance

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks should be sequenced for learners from simple to complex during syllabus design. Containing theoretical discussion of the Cognition Hypothesis, and cutting-edge empirical studies of the effects of task complexity on second language learning and performance, this book will be important reading for language teachers, graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive and educational psychology.

Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of Language Learning and Performance
Peter Robinson ... chapter provides an overview of pedagogic and theoretical
issues that have motivated recent research into second language task complexity
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Developing Reading and Writing in Second-language Learners

Lessons from the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth

A Co-Publication of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. and The International Reading Association This book is a shorter version of the full volume Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. The Panel – a distinguished group of expert researchers in reading, language, bilingualism, research methods, and education – was appointed to identify, assess, and synthesize research on the literacy education of language-minority children and youth. In this book, chapters adapted from the original report concisely summarize what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, including development, environment, instruction, and assessment.