Investigations in instructed second language acquisition / edited by Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Housen, Alex, 1964-

Pierrard, M.

Series:

Studies on language acquisition ; 25.

Studies on language acquisition ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

ix, 568 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2005]

Contents:

Instructed learners' fluency and implicit/explicit language processes / Liz Temple

Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in instructed GFL learning / Barbara Menzel

Language analytic ability and oral production in a second language / Leila Ranta

Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal morphology / Kira Gor and Tatiana Chernigovskaya

Teaching marked linguistic structures

more about the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English / Ahlem Ammar and Patsy M. Lightbown

The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit form-focussed instruction / Nina Spada, Patsy M. Lightbown and Joanna L. White

Rule complexity and the efficacy of explicit grammar instruction / Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard, and Siska van Daele

Focus on formS as a means of improving accurate oral production / Ronald Sheen

Instructed second language vocabulary learning / Batia Laufer

Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic foreign language teaching / Katja Lochtman

Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting language learning / Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder

Interactional strategies for interlanguage communication / María del Pilar García Mayo

Assessment of the role of communication tasks in the development of second language oral production skills / Peter Griggs

Language learning in content-based instruction / Heini-Marja Järvinen

Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse in a second language classroom / Tsuyoshi Kida

Second language acquisition in a study abroad context / Martin Howard

The effect of type of acquisition context on perception and self-reported use of swearwords in the L2, L3, L4 and L5 / Jean-Marc Dewaele.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110179709

OCLC:

57641434