Contemporary approaches to second language acquisition in social context : crosslinguistic perspectives / edited by Vera Regan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Regan, Vera.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

172 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 1998.

Summary:

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context contains exciting new research in the area of social context and second language acquisition. In the past twenty years, an explosion of research is resulting in a better understanding of the total process of acquisition from multiple perspectives: cognitive, linguistic and social. Recently, the important implications of social factors in acquisition are being recognized. The book contains work by leading researchers in the field. It deals with an unusually wide variety of target and source languages, including English-speaking children acquiring Irish, Chinese adults acquiring Hungarian, Moroccan children acquiring Dutch and Dutch learners acquiring French.

Contents:

1 Second language learning through interaction: Multiple perspectives / Teresa Pica 9

2 'Aha' as communication strategy: Chinese speakers of Hungarian / Juliet Langman 32

3 Early immersion in Ireland: The Naionra experience / Tina Hickey 46

4 Temporal reference in story retellings. Comparison between French and American native speakers and French advanced learners of English / Monique Lambert 62

5 The development of L2 acquisition of Moroccan children in the Netherlands / Petra Bos 74

6 What makes us think that students who study abroad become fluent? / Barbara F. Freed 89

7 Speech rate variation in two oral styles of advanced French interlanguage / Jean-Marc Dewaele 113

8 Language and identity in immigrant language acquisition and use: A framework for integrating sociological, psychological and linguistic data / Norbert Dittmar, Bernard Spolsky, Joel Walters 124

9 The visible loanword: Processes of integration seen in bare English-origin nouns in Ukrainian / Shana Poplack, Svitlana Budzhak-Jones 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1900621142

OCLC:

39339441