The handbook of second language acquisition / edited by Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doughty, Catherine.

Long, Michael H.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

ix, 888 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Second language acquisition

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition presents an integrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issues in second language acquisition research. * Discusses the biological and cognitive underpinnings of SLA, mechanisms, processes, and constraints on SLA, the level of ultimate attainment, research methods, and the status of SLA as a cognitive science. * Includes contributions from twenty-seven of the world's leading scholars. * Provides an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of human cognition, including those in linguistics, psychology, applied linguistics, ESL, foreign languages, and cognitive science.

Contents:

Intro

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

I Overview

1 The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA

II Capacity and Representation

2 On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language

3 The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar

4 Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure

5 Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals:The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations

6 Near-Nativeness

III Environments for SLA

7 Language Socialization in SLA

8 Social Context

9 Input and Interaction

10 Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement

IV Processes in SLA

11 Implicit and Explicit Learning

12 Incidental and Intentional Learning

13 Automaticity and Second Languages

14 Variation

15 Cross-Linguistic Influence

16 Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development

V Biological and Psychological Constraints

17 Maturational Constraints in SLA

18 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning

19 Attention and Memory during SLA

20 Language Processing Capacity

VI Research Methods

21 Defining and Measuring SLA

22 Data Collection in SLA Research

VII The State of SLA

23 SLA Theory: Construction and Assessment

24 SLA and Cognitive Science

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610285648

9781280285646

1280285648

9780470756492

0470756497

9781405151887

1405151889

OCLC:

437159247