Explorations In Second Language Acquisition And Processing

Author : James Corbet,Roumyana Slabakova,Laura Domíguez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527530829

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Explorations in Second Language Acquisition and Processing by James Corbet,Roumyana Slabakova,Laura Domíguez Pdf

This book presents cutting-edge research on the nature of grammatical systems developed by bilinguals and second language learners, as well as how speakers put these grammatical systems to use in processing language. The chapters provide a stimulating mix of theoretical contributions and experimental designs addressing a variety of research questions, such as learnability and access to Universal Grammar, native language influence, variability, and what propels language development from one stage to the next. Bilingual development is a special highlight here. The linguistic domains investigated are also extremely diverse, and include morphology, syntax, and language processing, as well as the interfaces between syntax and semantics and between syntax and discourse. The book covers the acquisition of an impressive number of languages including Arabic, Croatian, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish as first or second languages. Through these diverse contributions, the reader will be able to identify and follow important new directions in which generative language acquisition is developing and expanding.

Author : Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015056211066

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Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use by Stephen D. Krashen Pdf

To those familiar with the field of linguistics and second-language acquisition, Stephen Krashen needs no introduction. He has published well over 300 books and articles and has been invited to deliver more than 300 lectures at universities throughout the United States and abroad. His widely known theory of second-language acquisition has had a huge impact on all areas of second-language research and teaching since the 1970s. This book amounts to a summary and assessment by Krashen of much of his work thus far, as well as a compilation of his thoughts about the future. Here, readers can follow Krashen as he reviews the fundamentals of second-language acquisition theory presents some of the original research supporting the theory and more recent studies offers counterarguments to criticisms explores new areas that have promise for progress in both theory and application. An invaluable resource on the results of Krashen's many years of research and application, this book covers a wide range of topics: from the role of the input/comprehension hypothesis (and its current rival-the comprehensible output hypothesis), the still-very-good idea of free voluntary reading, and current issues and controversies about teaching grammar, to considerations of how it is we grow intellectually, or how we "get smart."

Author : Terence Odlin
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788929561

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Explorations of Language Transfer by Terence Odlin Pdf

When learners of a new language draw on their native language (or on any other that they may know), this earlier acquired linguistic knowledge may influence their success. Such cross-linguistic influence, also known as language transfer, has long raised questions about what linguists can predict about success in the new language and about what processes are involved in using prior knowledge. This book lucidly brings together many insights on transfer: e.g. on the relation between translation and transfer, the relation between comprehension and production, and the problem of how complete any predictions of difficulty may ever be. The discussions also explore implications for future research and for classroom practice. The book will thus serve as a reliable guide for teachers, researchers, translators, interpreters, and students curious about language contact.

Author : Mick Randall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902721977X

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Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning by Mick Randall Pdf

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining 'bottom-up' decoding processes as compared with 'top-down' processes as they affect memory. It also discusses second language learning from the acquisition/learning and nativist/connectionist perspectives. These ideas are then related to the methods that are used to teach second languages, primarily English, in formal classroom situations. This examination involves both 'mainstream' communicative approaches, and more traditional methods widely used to teach EFL throughout the world. The book is intended to act both as a textbook for students who are studying second language teaching and as an exploration of issues for the interested teacher who would like to further extend their understanding of the cognitive processes underlying their teaching.Mick Randall is currently Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Head of the Institute of Education at the British University in Dubai. He has taught courses in second language learning and teaching, applied linguistics and psychology in a number of different contexts. He has a special interest in the cognitive processing of language and in the psycholinguistics of word recognition, spelling and reading.

Author : Martin Pütz,Laura Sicola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027239020

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Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition by Martin Pütz,Laura Sicola Pdf

This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical, describing a variety of L1, L2 and L3 combinations from around the world as observed in spoken, written, and computer-mediated contexts. The book relates conditions of language, task, medium or environment to how learners make decisions about language, with discussions about the application or efficacy of these conditions on linguistic success and development, and pedagogical implications.

Author : Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415338700

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Second Language Acquisition by Kees De Bot,Wander Lowie,Marjolyn Verspoor Pdf

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.

Author : Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259769

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Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition by Bronwen Patricia Dyson Pdf

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered stages of language acquisition, the book provides an informative, critical analysis of historical and contemporary debates about the role of variation in linguistic variation, particularly second language variation. Richly illustrated with a forensic year-long study of how eight adolescent learners of English vary in their acquisition of syntax and morphology, this monograph shows that learners vary in their timing of development between two distinct learner types along a continuum and without skipping stages. The book uncovers how learner variation is dynamic and quite (although not entirely) systematic and how this variation contributes to change in the second language. It will be essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners.

Author : Martin Pütz,Laura Sicola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288325

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Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition by Martin Pütz,Laura Sicola Pdf

This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical, describing a variety of L1, L2 and L3 combinations from around the world as observed in spoken, written, and computer-mediated contexts. The book relates conditions of language, task, medium or environment to how learners make decisions about language, with discussions about the application or efficacy of these conditions on linguistic success and development, and pedagogical implications.

Author : María del Pilar García Mayo,María Junkal Gutierrez Mangado,María Martínez Adrián
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272225

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Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition by María del Pilar García Mayo,María Junkal Gutierrez Mangado,María Martínez Adrián Pdf

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.

Author : Carol Wollman Pfaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015013129468

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First and Second Language Acquisition Processes by Carol Wollman Pfaff Pdf

Author : Shawn Loewen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317206019

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Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition by Shawn Loewen Pdf

Now in its second edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a cohesive view of the different theoretical and pedagogical perspectives that comprise instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). Loewen provides comprehensive discussions of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical aspects of a range of key issues in ISLA, and has added to this edition a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between ISLA research and second language pedagogy. Also new is the addition of supporting features including new end-of-chapter activities, points for reflection, and discussion questions, as well as thoroughly revised content to reflect the most recent research in ISLA. This is an essential resource for students new to ISLA, or working in second language acquisition more generally.

Author : Judit Kormos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134814664

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Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition by Judit Kormos Pdf

This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. This new volume provides a thorough overview of the field and proposes a new integrative model of how L2 speech is produced. The study of speech production is its own subfield within cognitive science. One of the aims of this new book, as is true of the series, is to make cognitive science theory accessible to second language acquisition. Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition examines how research on second language and bilingual speech production can be grounded in L1 research conducted in cognitive science and in psycholinguistics. Highlighted is a coherent and straightforward introduction to the bilingual lexicon and its role in spoken language performance. Like the rest of the series, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition is tutorial in style, intended as a supplementary textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in programs of cognitive science, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and language pedagogy.

Author : Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : OCLC:1180916692

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Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition by Stephen D. Krashen Pdf

Author : Anahí Alba de la Fuente,Elena Valenzuela,Cristina Martínez Sanz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266262

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Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters by Anahí Alba de la Fuente,Elena Valenzuela,Cristina Martínez Sanz Pdf

The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena. This volume is a tribute to Juana M. Liceras’ fundamental and enduring contribution to the field of Spanish Second Language Acquisition (SLA). All the chapters in the volume are linked to or inspired by Juana’s extensive body of work, and, like Juana’s research, they all stand at the crossroads of formal and experimental linguistics. Together, the studies presented in this volume are a reflection of Juana’s impact both as a mentor and as a collaborative researcher while at the same time showcasing current trends and new directions in the field of generative SLA.

Author : Peter Jordens,Josine Lalleman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812831

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Investigating Second Language Acquisition by Peter Jordens,Josine Lalleman Pdf

The book concerns theoretical, interdisciplinary and methodological issues in L2 acquisition research. It gives an accurate and up-to-date overview of high quality work currently in progress in research methodology, processing, principles and parameters theory, phonology, the bilingual lexicon, input and instruction. The volume will have the purpose of a handbook for teachers, students and researchers in the area of second language acquisition. The aim is to provide the reader with an acquisition perspective on processes of second and foreign language learning.