Grammatical Development in Language Learning
The Best of Language Learning Series
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-4051-3581-8 (ISBN)
Description
Why is learning the grammar of a second language difficult? The present volume brings together insights from leading researchers, published in the past five years of the journal Language Learning, to identify the multiple factors that combine to challenge learners in attaining full proficiency in a second language.
An innovative synthesis of recent research on grammar and second language acquisition.
Highlights the importance of transparency in form-meaning relations as well as learners' aptitudes and previous language learning experiences.
Shows how diminutives facilitate gender acquisition in Russian.
Demonstrates how learners make semantic distinctions in acquiring gender distinction in French.
Evaluates the role of phonological short-term memory in the acquisition of gender in a semi-artificial linguistic system.
A useful collection for a graduate seminar on psycholinguistic aspects of second language acquisition.
An innovative synthesis of recent research on grammar and second language acquisition.
Highlights the importance of transparency in form-meaning relations as well as learners' aptitudes and previous language learning experiences.
Shows how diminutives facilitate gender acquisition in Russian.
Demonstrates how learners make semantic distinctions in acquiring gender distinction in French.
Evaluates the role of phonological short-term memory in the acquisition of gender in a semi-artificial linguistic system.
A useful collection for a graduate seminar on psycholinguistic aspects of second language acquisition.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-3581-8 (9781405135818)
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Robert DeKeyser is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has a Ph.D. in Education with a minor in Linguistics from Stanford University. His research is on second language acquisition, particularly cognitive-psychological aspects. Some of his favorite topics are interlanguage variability, monitoring processes, automatization of second language grammar, the effect of age of learning and other individual differences, and the relationship between implicit and explicit learning and knowledge. He has published in a variety of journals, including Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Testing, The Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, and AILA Review.
Content
What makes learning second-language grammar difficult?: a review of issues 1
Explaining the "natural order of L2 morpheme acquisition" in English: a meta-analysis of multiple determinants 27
Input and SLA: adults' sensitivity to different sorts of cues to French gender 79
The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Russian gender: can elements of child-directed speech aid in learning morphology? 139
Phonological memory and rule learning 177
Explaining the "natural order of L2 morpheme acquisition" in English: a meta-analysis of multiple determinants 27
Input and SLA: adults' sensitivity to different sorts of cues to French gender 79
The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Russian gender: can elements of child-directed speech aid in learning morphology? 139
Phonological memory and rule learning 177