The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9781107007710 | 1107007712
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/25/2013
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What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition? What are the properties of interlanguage systems? This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent developments in SLA research provides significant contributions by established experts and widely recognized younger talent. It covers cutting edge an... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Theory and Practice | |
| Theories of language | |
| History of the study of L2 acquisition | |
| Theoretical approaches | |
| Scope and research methodologies | |
| Internal Ingredients | |
| Native language influence | |
| Learning mechanisms and automatization | |
| Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus | ... MORE |
| Learner internal psychological factors | |
| Alphabetic literacy and adult L2 acquisition | |
| External Ingredients | |
| Negotiated input and output interaction Marķa del | |
| Identity construction | |
| Socialization | |
| Variation | |
| Electronic resources and interaction | |
| Biological Factors | |
| Age related effects | |
| Childhood L2 acquisition | |
| Incomplete L1 acquisition and attrition | |
| Third language acquisition | |
| Language processing | |
| Affect and the brain | |
| Properties of Interlanguage Systems | |
| The lexicon | |
| Semantics | |
| Discourse and pragmatics | |
| Morphosyntax | |
| Phonology and speech | |
| Models of Development | |
| Explaining change in transition grammars | |
| Stage-like development and organic grammar | |
| Emergentism, connectionism and complexity models | |
| Input, input processing and focus on form | |
| Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development | |
| Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment | |
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