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:

1 online resource (580 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others may favour a more qualitative and hermeneutic analytic approach. Many of these issues and methods are exemplified by the contributions to this volume. Data-based studies included here deal with the acquisition of specific linguistic phenomena (e.g. verb and noun morphology, lexicon, clause structures) in a range of target languages (e.g. English, French, German, Russian) from a variety of settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g. traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the productivity and diversity of current research on instructed second language acquisition. As such they serve as a valuable resource for researchers in SLA, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and language education.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Investigating Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Investigating cognitive and processing mechanisms in instructed SLA

Instructed learners' fluency and implicit/explicit language processes

Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in instructed GFL learning

Language analytic ability and oral production in a second language: Is there a connection?

Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal morphology

Investigating the role and effects of form-focused instruction

Teaching marked linguistic structures - more about the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English

The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit form-focused instruction

Structure complexity and the efficacy of explicit grammar instruction

Focus on forms as a means of improving accurate oral production

Instructed Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The fault in the 'default hypothesis'

Investigating the role and effects interaction and Communication-Focused Instruction

Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic foreign language teaching

Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting language learning

Interactional strategies for interlanguage communication: Do they provide evidence for attention to form?

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

Language learning in content-based instruction

Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse in a second language classroom

Comparing the effects of instructed and naturalistic L2 acquisition contexts

Second language acquisition in a study abroad context: A comparative investigation of the effects of study abroad and foreign language instruction on the L2 learner's grammatical development

The effect of type of acquisition context on perception and self-reported use of swearwords in L2, L3, L4 and L5

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612193903

9781282193901

1282193902

9783110197372

3110197375

OCLC:

191935111