The Acquisition Of The German Case System By Foreign Language Learners

Author : Kristof Baten
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271709

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The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners by Kristof Baten Pdf

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position to marking the argument’s actual function. Theoretically couched within Processability Theory, the book deals with the feature unification and the mapping processes involved in case marking, and critically examines previous findings on German case acquisition. Empirically, the book consists of longitudinal data of 11 foreign language learners of German, which was collected over a period of 2 years. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of German and in the acquisition of case systems in general.

Author : Ragnar Arntzen,Gisela Håkansson,Arnstein Hjelde,Jörg-U. Keßler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262592

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Teachability and Learnability across Languages by Ragnar Arntzen,Gisela Håkansson,Arnstein Hjelde,Jörg-U. Keßler Pdf

Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching. Focusing on a Processability Theory perspective, it brings together empirical studies of language acquisition, language teaching, and language assessment. For the first time, a research timeline for the role of instruction in language learning is presented, showing how the field of second language acquisition (SLA) research has developed over the last four decades since Pienemann’s work on learnability and syllabus construction over the 1980s. The book includes studies of child and adult second as well as foreign language acquisition research, covering a wide range of target languages including English, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In addition, future extensions of PT are discussed. This volume is designed for advanced students in international programs of SLA and Applied Linguistics as well as for SLA researchers and second and foreign language teachers.

Author : Bronwen Patricia Dyson,Gisela Håkansson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265876

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Understanding Second Language Processing by Bronwen Patricia Dyson,Gisela Håkansson Pdf

This book aims to help researchers and teachers interested in language processing and Processability Theory (PT) to understand this theory and its applications. PT is an influential account of second language processing which hypothesizes that, due to the architecture of language processing, learners acquire second languages in developmental stages. This book lays out PT’s predictions and research on the development of diverse target languages – particularly English and Scandinavian languages – by learners of various categories. It discusses the typological issues facing PT and its contribution to an understanding of variation and cognitive constraints on pedagogy. However, the book also raises a critical eye to the literature which, after almost twenty years of evolution, requires explanation, clarification and, in some cases, extension. Why do some phenomena belong to different stages in different languages? Why are important types of variation under-represented? Is teaching as constrained as proposed in PT?

Author : Satomi Kawaguchi,Bruno Di Biase,Yumiko Yamaguchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254917

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Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region by Satomi Kawaguchi,Bruno Di Biase,Yumiko Yamaguchi Pdf

This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will be pleasantly surprised to be able to access, within one publication, so much novel and overview information on SLA while maintaining its focus on PT, its theoretical developments including its 2005 (Pienemann et al.) and 2015 (Bettoni & Di Biase) extensions and how they relate to PT’s foundation work (Pienemann 1998), as well as its applications to language learning and teaching in Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Malay and English in countries of the Asia-Pacific region including Australia. This volume demonstrates the vitality and the dynamic nature of PT and its potential as a tool for understanding SLA both theory and practice.

Author : Rosamond Mitchell,Florence Myles,Emma Marsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317206767

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Second Language Learning Theories by Rosamond Mitchell,Florence Myles,Emma Marsden Pdf

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition (SLA) from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the very latest developments SLA research in recent years. The book covers all the main theoretical perspectives currently active in SLA and sets each chapter within a broader framework. Each chapter examines the claims and scope of each theory and how each views language, the learner and the acquisition process, supplemented by summaries of key studies and data examples from a variety of languages. Chapters end with an evaluative summary of the theories discussed. Key features to this fourth edition include updated accounts of developments in cognitive approaches to second language (L2) learning, the implications of advances in generative linguistics and the "social turn" in L2 research, with re-worked chapters on functional, sociocultural and sociolinguistic perspectives, and an entirely new chapter on theory integration, in addition to updated examples using new studies. Second Language Learning Theories continues to be an essential resource for graduate students in second language acquisition.

Author : Anke Lenzing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350148741

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The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition by Anke Lenzing Pdf

Examining a key issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research, this book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing. The central question underlying this interface is the relationship between grammatical encoding and decoding, namely: are the two modalities of production and comprehension subserved by different types of processors, or by the same syntactic processing module? Proposing an 'Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model' of SLA, Anke Lenzing presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study to demonstrate the extent to which the two modalities rely on shared representations and/or shared processes. Through this detailed analysis The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition sheds new light on the cognitive architecture of human language processing and offers a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in the L2 acquisition process.

Author : Anke Lenzing,Howard Nicholas,Jana Roos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262189

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Widening Contexts for Processability Theory by Anke Lenzing,Howard Nicholas,Jana Roos Pdf

This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work in other traditions ways of connecting with a research tradition that makes specific testable claims about second language acquisition processes. These dual perspectives mean that both beginning and established SLA researchers as well as those seeking to connect their work with views of language learning will find something of interest. Studies of multiple languages and multiple aspects of language are included. Chapters cover areas as diverse as literacy, language comprehension, language attrition and language testing.

Author : Jörg-U. Keßler,Anke Lenzing,Mathias Liebner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267191

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Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages by Jörg-U. Keßler,Anke Lenzing,Mathias Liebner Pdf

This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory development and theory application and focuses on theoretical developments within the framework of PT as well as issues related to second language teaching and assessment. In coordinating approaches to addressing both theoretical and applied aspects of SLA, this volume aims at bridging the gap between theory and practice. It also reflects the richness of debate within the field of PT-based research. The volume is intended for postgraduate students, SLA researchers as well as language teachers. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Kristof Baten,Aafke Buyl,Katja Lochtman,Mieke Van Herreweghe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267702

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Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory by Kristof Baten,Aafke Buyl,Katja Lochtman,Mieke Van Herreweghe Pdf

This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann 1998, 2005). The aim of the book is to provide a forum for new perspectives focusing on three intersections: (1) the interface between morpho-syntax and discourse/pragmatics/semantics, (2) constraints on processing and receptive processing and (3) developments in instructed second language learning. Each part also includes a response paper, in which the new perspectives, in terms of the theoretical challenges and/or the empirical results of the preceding chapters are discussed. This collection of articles and response papers will be very relevant to students and researchers interested in theoretical aspects of second language acquisition, and more specifically Processability Theory, and clearly indicates that the field is lively and open.

Author : Susanne Niemeier
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823391302

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Task-based grammar teaching of English by Susanne Niemeier Pdf

The focus on communication in TBLT often comes at the expense of form. In this book, the task-based approach is enhanced and coupled with insights into (cognitive) grammar, an approach which sees grammar as meaningful. The book shows how grammar teaching can be integrated into a communicative lesson in a non-explicit way, i.e., "by the backdoor". The learners are involved in situations that they may also encounter outside their classrooms and they are given communicative tasks they are to work on and solve, usually with a partner or in small groups. What teachers need to invest for preparing such lessons is their own creativity, as they have to come up with communicative situations which guide the learners into using a specific grammatical structure. The book first discusses the didactic and the linguistic theories involved and then translates these theoretical perspectives into actual teaching practice, focusing on the following grammatical phenomena: tense, aspect, modality, conditionals, passive voice, prepositions, phrasal verbs, verb complementation, pronouns and articles.

Author : Jacopo Saturno
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102624

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Utterance structure in initial L2 acquisition by Jacopo Saturno Pdf

This work is devoted to morphosyntactic processing in the earliest stages of L2 Polish. The target structure taken into consideration is the morphosyntactic opposition between the nominative and accusative case, respectively corresponding to the subject and object function. This is the first book-length work devoted to the VILLA project, a large multi-national initiative within which 90 adult learners took part in a first-exposure, 14-hour Polish course under controlled input conditions. As participants had never been exposed to Polish or other Slavic languages, the experiment portrays the very first contact with a completely new target language; moreover, since the learners were evenly distributed among five L1 groups, L1 interference can also be investigated in depth. In addition to an in-depth analysis of the effect of input properties on morpho-syntactic processing, the book discusses sensitive methodological points such as the role of semantics in semi-spontaneous production as well as the impact of elicitation techniques.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258397

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The Acquisition of Gender by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and complexity, and even closely related languages present distinct differences, creating difficulties for second language learners. The first three chapters of this volume present critical reviews in three different areas – gender assignment in mixed noun phrases, subtle gentle biases and the gender acquisition in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish – while the next six chapters present new empirical evidence in the acquisition of gender by bilingual children, adult L2/L3 learners and heritage speakers of various languages such as Italian, German, Dutch or Mandarin-Italian.

Author : Camilla Bettoni,Bruno Di Biase
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9781329427655

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Grammatical development in second languages. Exploring the boundaries of Processability Theory by Camilla Bettoni,Bruno Di Biase Pdf

Author : Chiara Alina Sachwitz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783346533692

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The Acquisition of Phonetic Details. Difficulties of the English Pronunciation for German Second Language Speakers and Teaching Suggestions by Chiara Alina Sachwitz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, , language: English, abstract: Nowadays, it seems perfectly normal to many Germans using English words in daily conversations, however, on the level of pronunciation, it is common to stick to the German sound system. Yet, there are language learners who know about the different phonological patterns of the two languages. To understand the reasons why German second language learners face difficulties pronouncing English sounds, this term paper focuses on potential areas of concern. English words are placed into the context of the native language and are characterized by its foreign-sounding accent. This accent is defined as a which give information on a person’s social background and indicate. At the same time, pronunciation itself while the pronunciation of individual sounds does not make a difference in meaning in the German language, it can have a distinctive function in the English language. Many language learners, however, are not aware of this contradiction between their first language and the target language and therefore, tend to pronounce English words incorrectly.

Author : Neal Snape,Tanja Kupisch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137367075

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Second Language Acquisition by Neal Snape,Tanja Kupisch Pdf

Exploring the canonical topics in second language acquisition, this book introduces different theoretical perspectives and explores the types of research carried out in the field. Individual chapters have been written so that they can stand alone, giving instructors and students total control over the pace and order of study, and the book is written in an accessible conversational style, inviting engagement with this dynamic topic. Second Language Acquisition: - Surveys key studies in the acquisition of morphology, syntax and phonology - Features a whole chapter dedicated to bilingualism, tying together two closely-linked fields - Examines the role and implications of pedagogy in language teaching contexts - Employs end-of-chapter questions, concept practice and suggestions for further reading to encourage deeper engagement with topic