The Cambridge handbook of second language acquisition / edited by Julia Herschensohn Martha Young-Scholten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herschensohn, Julia Rogers, 1945- editor.

Young-Scholten, Martha, editor.

Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 823 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

[Enhanced Credo edition].

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition? What are the properties of interlanguage systems? This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent developments in SLA research provides significant contributions by established experts and widely recognized younger talent. It covers cutting edge and emerging areas of enquiry not treated elsewhere in a single handbook, including third language acquisition, electronic communication, incomplete first language acquisition, alphabetic literacy and SLA, affect and the brain, discourse and identity. Written to be accessible to newcomers as well as experienced scholars of SLA, the Handbook is organised into six thematic sections, each with an editor-written introduction.

Contents:

Introduction / Julia Herschensohn and Martha Young-Scholten

Part I: Theory and practice

Theories of language from a critical perspective / Jan Koster

History of the study of second language acquisition / Margaret Thomas

Theoretical approaches / Florence Myles

Scope and research methodologies / Melinda Whong and Clare Wright

Part II: Internal ingredients

The role of the native language / Claire Foley and Suzanne Flynn

Learning mechanisms and automatization / Richard Towell

Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus / Bonnie D. Schwartz and Rex A. Sprouse

Learner internal psychological factors / Jean-Marc Dewaele

Alphabetic literacy and adult SLA / Elaine Tarone, Kit Hansen and Martha Bigelow

Part III: External ingredients

Negotiated input and output/interaction / María del Pilar García Mayo and Eva Alcón Soler

Second language identity construction / Elizabeth R. Miller and Ryuko Kubota

Socialization / Georges Daniel Véronique

Variation / Vera Regan

Electronic interaction and resources / Astrid Ensslin and Cedric Krummes

Part IV: Biological factors

Age related effects / Julia Herschensohn

Childhood second language acquisition / Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva

Incomplete L1 acquisition / Silvina Montrul

Third language acquisition / Jason Rothman, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Kees de Bot

Language processing / Alice Foucart and Cheryl Frenck-Mestre

Affect and the brain / Andrea Mates and Anna Joaquin

Part V: Properties of interlanguage systems

The lexicon / James Milton and Giovanna Donzelli

Semantics / Laurent Dekydtspotter

Discourse and pragmatics / Roumyana Slabakova

Morphosyntax / Tania Ionin

Phonology and speech / Ellen Broselow and Yoonjung Kang

Part VI: Models of development

Explaining change in transition grammars / Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott and Roger Hawkins

Stage-like development and organic grammar / Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten

Emergentism, connectionism and complexity / Randal Holme

Input, input processing and focus on form / Joe Barcroft and Wynne Wong

Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development / Amy Snyder Ohta

Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment / Donna Lardiere.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-35731-4

1-107-23441-7

1-78402-363-9

1-107-34882-X

1-139-05172-5

1-107-34144-2

1-107-34769-6

1-299-39997-5

1-107-34394-1

1-107-34519-7

OCLC:

829459924