Ecology of language acquisition / edited by Jonathan Leather and Jet van Dam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leather, Jonathan.

Van Dam, Jet.

Series:

Educational linguistics ; v. 1.

Educational linguistics ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms.

Contents:

1 Towards an ecology of language acquisition / Jonathan Leather, Jet van Dam 1

2 Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: Foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition / Mark Fettes 31

3 A tale of two computer classrooms: The ecology of project-based language learning / Leo van Lier 49

4 From joint attention to language acquisition: How infants learn to control others' behavior / Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito 65

5 Beyond cognitive determination: Interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics / Jordan Zlatev 83

6 Language socialization in children's religious education: The discursive and affective construction of identity / A. Patricia Baquedano-Lopez 107

7 An integrational linguistic view of coming into language: Reflexivity and metonymy / Michael Toolan 123

8 The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment / Wan Shun Eva Lam, Claire Kramsch 141

9 Robot babies: What can they teach us about language acquisition? / David Powers 159

10 Borrowing words: Appropriations in child second language discourse / Gabriele Pallotti 183

11 Language acquisition behind the scenes: Collusion and play in educational settings / Jet van Dam 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402010176

OCLC:

50767822