The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

by Herschensohn, Julia; Young-Scholten, Martha

• ISBN13: 9781107007710
• ISBN10: 1107007712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-02-25
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theory and Practice

Theories of language

History of the study of L2 acquisition

Theoretical approaches

Scope and research methodologies

Internal Ingredients

Native language influence

Learning mechanisms and automatization

Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus

Learner internal psychological factors

Alphabetic literacy and adult L2 acquisition

External Ingredients

Negotiated input and output interaction María del

Identity construction

Socialization

Variation

Electronic resources and interaction

Biological Factors

Age related effects

Childhood L2 acquisition

Incomplete L1 acquisition and attrition

Third language acquisition

Language processing

Affect and the brain

Properties of Interlanguage Systems

The lexicon

Semantics

Discourse and pragmatics

Morphosyntax

Phonology and speech

Models of Development

Explaining change in transition grammars

Stage-like development and organic grammar

Emergentism, connectionism and complexity models

Input, input processing and focus on form

Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development

Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment

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