Housen / Pierrard Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019737-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 25, 580 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others may favour a more qualitative and hermeneutic analytic approach.
Many of these issues and methods are exemplified by the contributions to this volume. Data-based studies included here deal with the acquisition of specific linguistic phenomena (e.g. verb and noun morphology, lexicon, clause structures) in a range of target languages (e.g. English, French, German, Russian) from a variety of settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g. traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the productivity and diversity of current research on instructed second language acquisition. As such they serve as a valuable resource for researchers in SLA, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and language education.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries; Teachers and Students of Linguists; Researche

Autoren/Hrsg.

Housen, Alex

Pierrard, Michel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Investigating Instructed Second Language Acquisition;11
4;Instructed learners’ fluency and implicit/explicit language processes;41
5;Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in instructed GFL learning;61
6;Language analytic ability and oral production in a second language: Is there a connection?;109
7;Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal morphology;141
8;Teaching marked linguistic structures – more about the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English;177
9;The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit form-focused instruction;209
10;Structure complexity and the efficacy of explicit grammar instruction;245
11;Focus on formS as a means of improving accurate oral production;281
12;Instructed Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The fault in the ‘default hypothesis’;321
13;Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic foreign language teaching;343
14;Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting language learning;363
15;Interactional strategies for interlanguage communication: Do they provide evidence for attention to form?;393
16;Assessment of the role of communication tasks in the development of second language oral production skills;417
17;Language learning in content-based instruction;443
18;Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse in a second language classroom;467
19;Second language acquisition in a study abroad context: A comparative investigation of the effects of study abroad and foreign language instruction on the L2 learner’s grammatical development;505
20;The effect of type of acquisition context on perception and self-reported use of swearwords in L2, L3, L4 and L5;541
21;Backmatter;571

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Housen is Lecturer at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Michel Pierrard is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)