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Effects of the Second Language on the First

This study examines changes in the first language of people who know a second language. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition and syntax.

The present study will investigate whether language and culture affect
productivity and lexical diversity in the speech of monolinguals, and whether the
degree of language proficiency and acculturation determines this variable in the
speech of ...

Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. This work focuses on how learners achieve agency in second language socialization processes and informs the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift.

Building on prior language socialization research in first language and bilingual
contexts, in this book I have discussed how language socialization processes (
e.g. telling stories about the day, talking about language and code-switching)
play ...

First and Second Language Acquisition

Parallels and Differences

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five year olds in their first language. This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual and bilingual first language development and child and adult second language acquisition. Unlike other books, it systematically compares first and second language acquisition, drawing on data from several languages. Research questions and findings from various subfields are helpfully summarized to show students how they are related and how they often complement each other. The essential guide to studying first and second language acquisition, it will be used on courses in linguistics, modern languages and developmental psychology.

2.1 Universal Grammar and the LAD The gift for language which manifests itself
in the effortless acquisition of language by toddlers can safely be qualified as a
species-specific endowment of humans. In fact, it enables children to develop a ...

Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition

This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant contribution to the debate over whether the universal politeness theory is applicable globally regardless of cultural differences.

strategy employed by learners, and show the level of progress learners are
making in their language learning process. Based on this argument, Corder (
1967) rejected the theory that impediments in secondlanguage acquisition are
duemerely ...

Modelling and Assessing Second Language Acquisition

MICHAEL G. CLYNE Monash University, Clayton, Australia Introductory remarks
This paper will attempt to discuss the importance of the sociolinguis- tic context in
the classroom development of a second language, partly in relation to some
questions raised by Pienemann (this volume, Chapter 2) and Long (this volume,
Chapter 3). While the situation I am describing is a specific one — in Melbourne,
Australia — it could easily be transferred to many other countries. One point that ...

Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context

"Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context" brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in this collection is on various aspects of second language learning, including the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, the acquisition of fluency, the use of communicative strategies and the development of oral and written skills. The studies are cross-linguistic and deal with student populations at the secondary and college levels who spent between three months and one year in study abroad or exchange programs in Japan, Russia, Spain, Mexico, France or Canada.

Language learning during study abroad: The case of Russian Studying abroad
for a semester or a year is an institution in foreign language programs in
American colleges and universities. Often such an experience is a requirement
for ...

Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition

This book is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity to practice?

DeKeyser, R. (1994) How implicit can adult second language learning be? AILA
Review 11, 83-96. DeKeyser, R. (1995) Learning second language grammar
rules: An experiment with a miniature linguistic system. Studies in Second ...

Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning

In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

Chapter 5 Repair of Teenagers' Spoken German in a Summer lmmersion
Program1 HEIDI HAMILTON This study examines the language repair practices (
following Schegloff et al., 1977) of four different groups of American teenaged
learners ...

Phonology and Second Language Acquisition

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each section unified by broad thematic content: Part I, “Theoretical Issues and Frameworks in L2 Phonology,” lays the groundwork for examining L2 phonological acquisition. Part II, “Second Language Speech Perception and Production,” examines these two aspects of L2 speech in more detail. Finally, Part III, “Technology, Training, and Curriculum,” bridges the gap between theory and practice. Each chapter examines theoretical frameworks, major research findings (both classic and recent), methodological issues and choices for conducting research in a particular area of L2 phonology, and major implications of the research findings for more general models of language acquisition and/or pedagogy.

Winifred Strange and Valerie L. Shafer City University of New York — Graduate
School and University Center Introduction One common characteristic of learners
of a second/foreign language who acquired the language in late adolescence or
 ...

Second-language Speech

Structure and Process

This work provides a cross-section of current research on second-language speech. Issues covered include: the influence of the first language; the contexts of speech-sounding learning; the perception-production relation; the nature of speech language capacity.

One of the fundamental goals of theoretical linguistics is to make explicit the
language learner's internalized grammar. To this end, the study of an inter-
language phonology - particularly a foreign accent - is a way to investigate and
uncover a ...