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Direct linkTabassum Maqbool, Editor; Luna Yue Lang, Editor – IntechOpen, 2024
"Second Language Acquisition -- Learning Theories and Recent Approaches" will aim to present the process of learning an additional language apart from one's native language. The process of understanding, writing, and speaking another language with fluency involves complex intellectual and emotional responses as well as continuous…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
Larissa Aronin, Editor; Eva Vetter, Editor – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This volume is an important instalment in the rapidly expanding literature on multilingualism in education and language teaching. Within multilingual studies the volume is highly innovative in its application of the concept, theory and perspectives of the Dominant Language Constellations (DLC). The volume reports original research on language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to each approach is written by a preeminent scholar…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
Han, ZhaoHong, Ed.; Tarone, Elaine, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2014
Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes a first-ever conceptual and empirical…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
Ortega, Lourdes, Ed.; Han, ZhaoHong, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2017
This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The chapters therein range from theoretical expositions to…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
Schwieter, John W., Ed.; Benati, Alessandro, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this "Handbook," written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Theories
Zou, Bin, Ed.; Smith, Simon, Ed.; Hoey, Michael, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2015
Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
Schwieter, John W., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2013
This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that focus on prominent linguistic and cognitive theories and together provide a compelling set of state-of-the-art works. Part I…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning
Eckman, Fred R., Ed.; And Others – 1984
Works on second language acquisition theories, affective variables and communicative competence, and interlanguage were compiled as a result of a symposium on universals of second language acquisition at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The papers include: "On the Variability of Interlangauge Systems" (Elaine Tarone); "Memory, Learning, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Interlanguage
Bertolo, Stefano, Ed. – 2001
This book has been conceived as a companion to learnability for the benefit of those linguists who base their work on Chomsky's "Principles and Parameters Hypothesis." General concepts from formal theory and complexity theory and important facts from psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and language processing have been introduced…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Birdsong, David, Ed. – 1999
This book considers the question of whether, or to what extent, a critical period limits the acquisition of a first language as well as a second language acquired postpubertally. The diversity of opinion on this question is represented in this volume. It is a question that has been approached by researchers working in linguistic theory, evolution…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes
Download full textArthur, Lore, Ed.; Hurd, Stella, Ed. – 1992
Taking into account the British government's decision to include foreign language learning as a foundation subject in the National Curriculum for all school pupils ages 11-16, this guide examines approaches to second language learning for adults. Chapters include the following: (1) The Adult Language Learner (learning as an adult, recognizing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Fountain, Amy, Ed.; Hendricks, Sean, Ed.; Ohno, Sachiko, Ed.; Miyashita, Mizuki, Ed.; Cole, Debbie, Ed. – 2000
The papers in this volume are all phonological in nature, and all but one of them are written within the framework of Optmality Theory. This volume includes work on a variety of languages: American Indian (Kiowa, Koasati, Shoshoni), Austronesian (Muna and Nancowry), Bantu (Tsonga), and Indo European (English and Spanish). The following articles…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Dialects, English
Yip, Virginia, Ed. – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1991
Papers in this volume include the following: "Constraints on Dative Acquisition by Chinese ESL Learners" (Hua Dong Fan); "The Learnability of Locality Conditions on Quantification" (Thomas Lee); "Do Learning Environments Make a Difference? A Study on the Acquisition of the English Interrogatives by Three Types of Cantonese…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed.; Drozdzial, Krystyna, Ed. – 1984
A collection of 14 papers in contrastive linguistics includes: "Some Comments on Language Data in Contrastive Analysis" (Ruta Nagucka); "Contrastive Sociolinguistics Reconsidered" (Karol Janicki); "Variations in Polish Nasal /e/: A Contribution to the Development of Contrastive Sociolinguistic Methodology" (Jane…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), German
