A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development

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Marjolijn Verspoor Kees de Bot Wander Lowie(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 28. February 2011

IX, 211 pages

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A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development
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Introduction
Researching Second Language Development from a Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective
1. Introduction
2. Theories in applied linguistics
2.1 DST as a theory of SLD
3. The basic characteristics of dynamic systems
3.1 Sensitive dependence on initial conditions
3.2 Complete interconnectedness
3.3 Nonlinearity in development
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3.5 Dependence on internal and external resources
3.6 Constant change, in which the systems only temporarily settle into "attractor states"
3.7 Chaotic variation over time (sometimes)
3.8 Iteration
3.9 Change caused by interaction with the environment and internal reorganization
3.10 Emergent properties
3.11 DST and language learning: Bringing the social and the psychological together
Dynamic Systems Theory and a Usage-based Approach to Second Language Development
1. Introduction
2. Language as a complex system
3. The role of frequency
4. The role of L1 in L2 acquisition
5. Dynamic language development
6. Individual patterns in language development
7. Conclusion
Coding and Extracting Data
1. Introduction
2. The case study: Measures to be analyzed
3. Coding and analyzing the data
4. Tracing development
4.1 The development of complexity in syntactic constructions
4.2 The development of the lexicon
4.3 Interaction between sentence complexity and the lexicon
5. Conclusion
Variability and DST
1. Introduction
2. Traditional versus DST approaches to variability in SLD
3. Variability: Sound or noise?
4. Longitudinal and dense developmental data
5. Descriptive techniques for time serial data
5.1 Plotting group data
5.2 The use of smoothing techniques
5.3 Min-max graphs
5.4 Resampling techniques
5.4.1 Hypothesis 1: Jorge is generally more variable than Alberto
5.4.2 Hypothesis 2: There are significant peaks in the use of don't V by Jorge and Alberto
6. Conclusion
Visualizing Interactions between Variables
1. Introduction
2. Defining growers
3. Analyzing interactions in time serial data
3.1 Development of sentence complexity
3.2 Development of different types of dependent clauses
4. Interaction between lexical sophistication and syntactic complexity
5. Conclusion
Modeling Development and Change
1. Introduction
2. Types of models
2.1 Static models
2.2 Linear versus non-linear models
2.3 Deterministic models
2.4 Dynamic, non-linear and stochastic models
2.5 Specifications of dynamic models
2.6 Summary types of models
3. Our basic dynamic growth model
4. Connected growers
5. Modeling vocabulary growth
5.1 Results
5.2 Modeling the data
5.3 Evaluating the theoretical model
5.4 Discussion
6. Conclusion
Epilogue
1. What's new?
2. A step forward?
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1. Introduction
2. How to section - Chapter 3
2.1 Formatting in CHAT
2.1.1 Header tiers
2.1.2 Utterance tiers
2.1.3 Dependent tiers
2.2 Creating a set of tools in Word
2.2.1 Recording Macros in Microsoft Word
2.2.2 Practicing writing a Macro (indicating a finite verb)
2.2.3 Writing a Macro to mark a code-switch
2.2.4 Writing a Macro to code an error
2.2.5 Writing a Macro to insert a %syn-tier after an utterance
2.2.6 Copying and pasting Macros
2.2.7 Creating a toolbar for Macros
2.3 Getting data ready to analyze with CLAN
2.3.1 Setting up CLAN and checking your files through the CHECK command
2.3.2 Setting up CLAN
2.3.3 Checking your files
2.3.4 Creating Lexical Profile and Frequency counts with CLAN
2.3.5 Creating a table for frequency counts in Excel
3. How to section - Chapter 4
3.1 Making graphs in Excel
3.1.1 Making a line graph
3.1.2 Formatting headings, legends and lines and adding a trendline
3.1.3 Making a min-max graph
3.2 Resampling techniques
3.2.1 Installing add-ins for Excel
3.2.2 Testing hypothesis 1: Jorge is generally more variable than Alberto
3.2.3 Step 1: Calculating absolute differences
3.2.4 Calculating average differences and their difference
3.2.5 Step 2: Reshuffling distances
3.2.6 Step 3: Running a Monte Carlo
3.2.7 Testing Hypothesis 2: There are significant peaks in the use of don't V by Jorge and Alberto
3.2.8 Calculating moving averages
3.2.9 Calculating the maximum distance between data points
3.2.10 Resampling
3.3 Detrending
3.3.1 Detrending the raw data
4. How to section - Chapter 5
4.1 Correlations and moving correlations
4.1.1 Adding variables
4.1.2 Normalizing the data
4.1.3 Calculating correlations
4.1.4 Moving correlation
5. How to section - Chapter 6
5.1 Data fitting
5.2 Modeling
5.2.1 Terms used in the model
5.2.2 Working with the model: general introduction
5.2.3 Modeling vocabulary growth
5.2.4 Modeling precursor relations
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