Linguistic relativity in SLA : thinking for speaking / edited by ZhaoHong Han and Teresa Cadierno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Han, Zhaohong, 1962-

Cadierno, Teresa.

Series:

Second Language Acquisition, No. 50

Second language acquisition ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Usage.

Language and languages.

Psycholinguistics.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin’s Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1: Motion in Danish as a Second Language: Does the Learner’s L1 Make a Difference?

Chapter 2: The Role of Thinking for Speaking in Adult L2 Speech: The Case of (Non)unidirectionality Encoding by American Learners of Russian

Chapter 3: Can an L2 Speaker’s Patterns of Thinking for Speaking Change?

Chapter 4: Thinking for Speaking and Immediate Memory for Spatial Relations

Chapter 5: The Gloss Trap

Chapter 6: Linguistic Effects on Thinking for Writing: The Case of Articles in L2 English

Chapter 7: Grammatical Morpheme Inadequacy as a Function of Linguistic Relativity: A Longitudinal Case Study

Chapter 8: Conclusion: On the Interdependence of Conceptual Transfer and Relativity Studies

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612657177

9781847693990

1847693997

9781282657175

1282657178

9781847692788

1847692788

OCLC:

645099449