Variation in Second Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistic Issues
Published on 27. April 1989
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-85359-028-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book and its accompanying volume, Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and Pragmatics, presents a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. The contributors combine insights from recent research in a number of fields: quantitative sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language typology, social psychology, the sociology of language, ethnomethodology, pidgin-creole studies and second language acquisition. The diversity of these contributing fields exposes the richness of the approaches represented in these two volumes. Along with this diversity, a generalised view of second language acquisition, sensitive to both socio- and psycholinguistic issues begins to emerge. Such a view allows one to see more directly the relevance of second language acquisition studies to the central questions of language. By focusing on the need to incorporate variability into our understanding of the nature of language, the books make important contributions not only to methodological and theoretical issues in second language acquisition, but also to the role of these issues in general linguistics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-028-3 (9781853590283)
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Variation in Second Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistic Issues
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Content
PREFACE
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
SECTION TWO: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
2. Elaine Tarone: Accounting for Style-shifting in Interlanguage
3. Rod Ellis: Sources of Intra-Learner Variability in Language Use and their Relationship to Second Language Acquisition
4. Roger Andersen: The Theoretical Status of Variation in Interlanguage Development
5. Richard Young: Ends and Means: Methods for the Study of lnterlanguage Variation
SECTION THREE: TOPIC AND TASK
6. James P. Lantolf and Mohammed K. Ahmed: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Interlanguage Variation: A Vygotskyan Analysis
7. Nathalie Bailey: Theoretical Implications of the Acquisition of the English Simple Past and Past Progressive: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle
8. Miriam Eisenstein and Robin Starbuck: The Effect of Emotional Investment on L2 Production
SECTION FOUR: APTITUDE AND CAPACITY
9. Loraine Obler: Exceptional Second Language Learners
10. Georgette loup: Immigrant Children Who Have Failed to Acquire Native English
11. Henning Wode: Maturational Changes of Language Acquisitional Abilities
SECTION FIVE: ATTRITION
12. Ahmed Fokhri: Variation in the Use of Referential Forms within the Context of Foreign Language Loss
13. Dorit Kaufman and Mork Aronoff: Morphological Interaction between LI and L2 in Language Attrition
SECTION SIX: LINGUISTIC FOUNDATIONS
14. H. D. Adamson: Variable Rules as Prototype Schemas
15. H. Guillermo Bartelt: L2 Tense Variation in Navajo English
16. Peter Trudgill: lnterlanguage, lnterdialect and Typological Change
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
SECTION TWO: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
2. Elaine Tarone: Accounting for Style-shifting in Interlanguage
3. Rod Ellis: Sources of Intra-Learner Variability in Language Use and their Relationship to Second Language Acquisition
4. Roger Andersen: The Theoretical Status of Variation in Interlanguage Development
5. Richard Young: Ends and Means: Methods for the Study of lnterlanguage Variation
SECTION THREE: TOPIC AND TASK
6. James P. Lantolf and Mohammed K. Ahmed: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Interlanguage Variation: A Vygotskyan Analysis
7. Nathalie Bailey: Theoretical Implications of the Acquisition of the English Simple Past and Past Progressive: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle
8. Miriam Eisenstein and Robin Starbuck: The Effect of Emotional Investment on L2 Production
SECTION FOUR: APTITUDE AND CAPACITY
9. Loraine Obler: Exceptional Second Language Learners
10. Georgette loup: Immigrant Children Who Have Failed to Acquire Native English
11. Henning Wode: Maturational Changes of Language Acquisitional Abilities
SECTION FIVE: ATTRITION
12. Ahmed Fokhri: Variation in the Use of Referential Forms within the Context of Foreign Language Loss
13. Dorit Kaufman and Mork Aronoff: Morphological Interaction between LI and L2 in Language Attrition
SECTION SIX: LINGUISTIC FOUNDATIONS
14. H. D. Adamson: Variable Rules as Prototype Schemas
15. H. Guillermo Bartelt: L2 Tense Variation in Navajo English
16. Peter Trudgill: lnterlanguage, lnterdialect and Typological Change