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Author : Betty Lou Leaver,Madeline Ehrman,Boris Shekhtman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521837514
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Author : Muriel Saville-Troike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107010895
A clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition, written for students encountering the topic for the first time.
Author : Richard Roberts,Roger Kreuz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780262529808
Forget everything you’ve heard about adult language learning: evidence from cognitive science and psychology prove we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children. An eye-opening study on how adult learners can master a foreign lanugage by drawing on skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime. Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do; they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children. Children appear to have only two advantages over adults in learning a language: they acquire a native accent more easily, and they do not suffer from self-defeating anxiety about learning a language. Adults, on the other hand, have the greater advantages—gained from experience—of an understanding of their own mental processes and knowing how to use language to do things. Adults have an especially advantageous grasp of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz show how to leverage this metalinguistic ability in learning a new language. Learning a language takes effort. But if adult learners apply the tools acquired over a lifetime, it can be enjoyable and rewarding.
Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194371891
An up to date comprehensive introduction to second language acqusition research. Contains a general framework for the study of second language acquisition, provides a general description of learner language, accounts for the role of the linguistic environment, examines the learner's internal mechanisms, explores individual differences in language learning and reviews the expanding research on classroom second language acquisition.
Author : Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415338697
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.
Author : Gabriel Wyner
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780385348102
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
Author : Virginia P. Collier
Publisher : Bastos Book Company
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : UOM:39076002386394
Author : Vivian Cook,David Singleton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783091829
This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research. Each chapter comprises an introductory discussion of the issues involved and suggestions for further reading and study. The reader is asked to consider the issues based on their own experiences, thus allowing them to compare their own intuitions and experiences with established research findings and gain an understanding of methodology. The topics are treated independently so that they can be read in any order that interests the reader. The topics in question are: • how different languages connect in the mind; • whether there is a best age for learning a second language; • the importance of grammar in acquiring and using a second language; • how the words of a second language are acquired; • how people learn to write in a second language; • how attitude and motivation help in learning a second language; • the usefulness of second language acquisition research for language teaching; • the goals of language teaching.
Author : Alfhonce Michael
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668473669
Literature Review from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 76.2, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: Student learning styles and second language acquisition is a sensible process where one learns of another language than of his or her first language. This process takes place after one has already gained the first language. Therefore, when studying the second language the learner can also find the language to be the third, forth or fifth in his or her studies. The first language is the first language a person learns immediately after he or she is born. Caregivers or parents that surround an individual when he or she is born mostly teach this language. Like the second language, learning one can also have more than one language at the same time. The author gives a brief overview on 11 recent studies on the subject.
Author : Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow,Melanie Ellis
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788922524
This book provides a holistic overview of what leads to success in foreign language learning at an early age and deepens our understanding of early foreign language learning. The studies use an array of methodological approaches to research learners aged between three and ten, as well as their parents and teachers, in instructional, minimal-input settings. They describe various ways of organising and promoting very early foreign language learning, both through language policy and innovative pedagogy, and focus on ways of providing input for second language acquisition, which include oral classroom discourse strategies, as well as learner development of literacy skills. Special attention is given to the necessity to develop critical reading skills, the ability to handle multimodal texts, and attitudes, motivations and behaviours and how these may impact on the teaching and learning process. Chapters emphasise that ultimate outcomes depend on extra linguistic environmental factors, such as parental involvement and teacher competences. These include establishing control in the classroom, as well as using appropriate strategies for Negotiation of Meaning, and helping learners build positive self-concept. This book will be of interest to all professionals involved in the teaching of foreign languages to young learners, as well as to researchers, teacher educators and students working in this area.
Author : Susan M. Gass,Larry Selinker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135602239
A clear and accessible introductory textbook on second language acquisition research, focusing on methodological issues, L1 influence, theories of second language research, interlanguage issues, L2 input, nonlinguistic factors, affecting L2 acquisition, instructed SLA, and the role of the lexicon. It is intended for UG or G students who have little or no background in SLA research but do have a basic grounding in general linguistics. Each chapter has exercises and a list of references.
Author : Willis Edmondson
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3823349422
Author : Vanessa De Wilde,Claire Goriot
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110743043
Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas such as language aptitude, language learning motivation and exposure to the language influence second language learning. Most of this research concerned adults. Far fewer studies have addressed the role of individual differences in second language learning of young learners. As second language learning programmes tend to start earlier than before and children are nowadays frequently exposed to a foreign language in social settings such as online games and social media, studying the role of individual differences in young learners can contribute both to SLA-theories and to evidence-based L2 education. This book discusses recent findings concerning the role of individual differences in language learning in young learners. The chapters in the book concern different topics linked to internal individual differences such as language aptitude, motivation, attitude and external individual differences such as exposure and type of instruction, the relative contribution of internal and external factors to language learning, and the interplay between the two types of individual differences.
Author : Mike Long
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118882214
This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and the philosophy of education Details best practice for TBLT programs, including discussion of learner needs and means analysis; syllabus design; materials writing; choice of methodological principles and pedagogic procedures; criterion-referenced, task-based performance assessment; and program evaluation Written by an esteemed scholar of second language acquisition with over 30 years of research and classroom experience Considers diffusion of innovation in education and the potential impact of TBLT on foreign and second language learning
Author : Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : OCLC:1180916692