Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-0525-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 265 Seiten, + index, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

Reihe: AILA Applied Linguistics Series

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.
Recipient of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics 2014 Book Award.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García Mayo, María del Pilar

Gutiérrez Mangado, María Junkal

Martínez Adrián, María

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Florence Myles
Introduction
Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo, Maria Junkal Gutierrez Mangado and Maria Martinez Adrian
Chapter 1. What is easy and what is hard to acquire in a second language: A generative perspective
Roumyana Slabakova
Chapter 2. Systemic Functional approaches to second language acquisition in school settings
Ana Llinares Garcia
Chapter 3. From input, output and comprehension to negotiation, evidence, and attention: An overview of theory and research on learner interaction and SLA
Teresa Pica
Chapter 4. Skill Acquisition Theory and the role of practice in L2 development
Roy Lyster and Masatoshi Sato
Chapter 5. The Input Processing Theory in second language acquisition
Alessandro G. Benati
Chapter 6. Processability Theory: Explaining developmental sequences
Gisela Hakansson
Chapter 7. Sociocultural Theory and second language development: Theoretical foundations and insights from research
Gabriela Adela Ganem-Gutierrez
Chapter 8. Investigating L2 spoken syntax: A Usage-based perspective
Regina Weinert, Maria Basterrechea and Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo
Chapter 9. Connectionist models of second language acquisition
Ping Li and Xiaowei Zhao
Chapter 10. Dynamic Systems Theory as a comprehensive theory of second language development
Kees de Bot, Wander Lowie, Steven L. Thorne and Marjolijn Verspoor
Chapter 11. Electrophysiology of second language processing: The past, present and future
Laura L. Sabourin, Christie Brien and Marie-Claude Tremblay
Afterword. On multiplicity and mutual exclusivity: The case for different SLA theories
Jason Rothman and Bill VanPatten
List of contributors