The Acquisition Of Spatial Relations In A Second Language

Author : Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282767

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The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language by Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll Pdf

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to express spatial relations in the target languages English, French and German. Learners' progress in the expression of spatial relations is closely followed over a period of 30 months using a wide range of oral data, and the factors determining both the specifics of individual source/target language pairings, and the general characteristics of all cases of acquisition studied, are carefully described. In particular, a basic system for the expression of spatial relations common to all learners from all language backgrounds is identified. The book is of particular significance for the field of second language acquisition in that this is the first time that results are presented in English on the acquisition of L2 means to express the basic cognitive — and communicational — category of space from a comparative linguistic point of view.

Author : Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241177

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The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language by Angelika Becker,Mary Carroll Pdf

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to express spatial relations in the target languages English, French and German. Learners' progress in the expression of spatial relations is closely followed over a period of 30 months using a wide range of oral data, and the factors determining both the specifics of individual source/target language pairings, and the general characteristics of all cases of acquisition studied, are carefully described. In particular, a basic system for the expression of spatial relations common to all learners from all language backgrounds is identified. The book is of particular significance for the field of second language acquisition in that this is the first time that results are presented in English on the acquisition of L2 means to express the basic cognitive and communicational category of space from a comparative linguistic point of view.

Author : Peter Robinson,Nick C. Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135604196

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Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition by Peter Robinson,Nick C. Ellis Pdf

This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole. The third section discusses the relevance of Cognitive Linguistics to SLA and defines a research agenda linking these fields with implications for language instruction. Its comprehensive range and tutorial-style chapters make this handbook a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Psycholinguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006031921

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Second Language Acquisition by Adult Immigrants: Reference to space by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vivian Cook,Benedetta Bassetti
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136866395

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Language and Bilingual Cognition by Vivian Cook,Benedetta Bassetti Pdf

This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines and showcases contemporary research on the emerging area of bilingual cognition. The first part of the volume discusses the relationship between language and cognition as studied in various disciplines, from psychology to philosophy to anthropology to linguistics, with chapters written by some of the major thinkers in each discipline. The second part concerns language and cognition in bilinguals. Following an introductory overview and contributions from established figures in the field, bilingual cognition researchers provide examples of their latest research on topics including time, space, motion, colors, and emotion. The third part discusses practical applications of the idea of bilingual cognition, such as marketing and translation. The volume is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in language and cognition, or in bilingualism and second languages.

Author : Rosa Alonso Alonso
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094844

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Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition by Rosa Alonso Alonso Pdf

This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters focusing on vocabulary, morphosyntactic categories, semantic structures, and phonetic and phonological structures feature in the volume, as do over 20 languages, in order to offer new insights into both theoretical and empirical issues in CLI, including the consequences of great or little similarity in structures between languages. The relevance of CLI research for teaching is discussed in a number of chapters, as is the phenomenon of multilingualism. The collection will appeal to researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, teachers and professionals interested in the field of CLI in SLA.

Author : Bill VanPatten,Jessica Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135928537

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Theories in Second Language Acquisition by Bill VanPatten,Jessica Williams Pdf

The second edition of Theories in Second Language Acquisition seeks to build on the strengths of the first edition by surveying the major theories currently used in second language acquisition research. This volume is an ideal introductory text for undergraduate and graduate students in SLA and language teaching. Each chapter focuses on a single theory, written by a leading scholar in the field in an easy-to-follow style – a basic foundational description of the theory, relevant data or research models used with this theory, common misunderstandings, and a sample study from the field to show the theory in practice. This text is designed to provide a consistent and coherent presentation for those new to the field who seek basic understanding of theories that underlie contemporary SLA research. Researchers will also find the book useful as a "quick guide" to theoretical work outside their respective domains.

Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223906

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna Jaszczolt Pdf

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

Author : William C. Ritchie,Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848552401

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The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition by William C. Ritchie,Tej K. Bhatia Pdf

"The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia's 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA. Part I includes a recent history of methods used in SLA research and an overview of currently used methods. Part II contains chapters on Universal Grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic. Part III is devoted to overviews of SLA research on lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, sentence processing, and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Part IV examines neuropsycholgy of SLA, another on child SLA, and the effects of age on second language acquisition and use. Part V is concerned with the contribution of the linguistic environment to SLA, including work on acquisition in different environments, through the Internet, and by deaf learners. Finally, Part VI treats social factors in SLA, including research on acquisition in contact circumstances, on social identity in SLA, on individual differences in SLA, and on the final state of SLA, bilingualism.

Author : Anne Golden,Scott Jarvis,Kari Tenfjord
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783098781

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Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning by Anne Golden,Scott Jarvis,Kari Tenfjord Pdf

This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from a single corpus of texts written for a proficiency test of L2 Norwegian by learners representing 10 different first language (L1) backgrounds. The participants of the study are immigrants to Norway and the book deals with the varying levels and types of language difficulties faced by such learners from differing backgrounds. The studies examine the learners’ use of Norwegian in relation to the morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic patterns they produce in their essays. Nearly all the studies in the book rely on analytical methods specifically designed to isolate the effects of the learners’ L1s on their use of L2 Norwegian, and every chapter highlights patterns that distinguish different L1 groups from one another.

Author : Aarnes Gudmestad,Amanda Edmonds
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263551

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Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition by Aarnes Gudmestad,Amanda Edmonds Pdf

This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses, variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting, coding, and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigations and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work, before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach. Researchers and graduate students alike will benefit from an open discussion on methodological issues that are in need of improvement.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207197

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Second Language Task Complexity by Peter Robinson Pdf

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.

Author : Judith F. Kroll,Annette M. B. De Groot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190288129

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Handbook of Bilingualism by Judith F. Kroll,Annette M. B. De Groot Pdf

How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do adult bilinguals comprehend and produce words and sentences when their two languages are potentially always active and in competition with one another? What are the neural mechanisms that underlie proficient bilingualism? What are the general consequences of bilingualism for cognition and for language and thought? This handbook will be essential reading for cognitive psychologists, linguists, applied linguists, and educators who wish to better understand the cognitive basis of bilingualism and the logic of experimental and formal approaches to language science.

Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273611

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt Pdf

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

Author : ZhaoHong Han,Teresa Cadierno
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847693990

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Linguistic Relativity in SLA by ZhaoHong Han,Teresa Cadierno Pdf

Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin’s Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition.