Input Matters in Sla

by Piske, Thorsten; Young-Scholten, Martha

• ISBN13: 9781847691095
• ISBN10: 1847691099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together well-known and new authors to discuss a topic of mutual interest to second language researchers and teachers alike: input. Reader-friendly chapters offer a range of existing and new perspectives on input in morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology.

Author Biography

Thorsten Piske is affiliated with the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. His research focuses on first and second language acquisition and on bilingual education. He is well known for joint work with James E. Flege on factors affecting degree of foreign accent in a second language. He has done research on the production and perception of first and second language speech sounds and on the effectiveness of bilingual programs in kindergartens and primary schools.Currently at Newcastle University in England, Martha Young-Scholten works on morpho-syntax and phonology. She is well known for joint work with Anne Vainikka on uninstructed adultsâ?? development of morpho-syntax in German. Prosodic structure, orthographic input and the phonological awareness of low-literate immigrant adults are some of the lines of research she pursues in the second language acquisition of phonology.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Martha Young-Scholten and Thorsten Piske

Part 1 : Matters of input

1. Input Frequency and the Acquisition of the Progressive - Andreas Rohde, University of Cologne, Germany

2. Processing Matters in Input Enhancement - Bill VanPatten, Texas Tech University, USA

3. Input and Second Language Development from a Dynamic Perspective - Marjolijn Verspoor, Wander Lowie and Kees de Bot, University of Groningen, Netherlands

4. The Comprehension Hypothesis Extended - Professor Emeritus Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California, USA

5. Output Matters Too - Nel de Jong, Queens College, CUNY, USA

6. Learner Attitudes towards Comprehension-based Language Learning - John Stephenson, Mie University, Japan

7. The Hidden Paradox of Foreign Language Instruction, or: Which are the Real Foreign Language Learning Processes? - Werner Bleyhl, Esslingen, Germany

Part 2: Input matters in phonology

8. Input as a Critical Means to an End: Quantity and Quality of Experience in L2 Phonological Attainment - Alene Moyer, University of Maryland, USA

9. Give Input a Chance! - James E. Flege, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy

10. Orthographic Input and Second Language Phonology - Benedetta Bassetti, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

11. Second Language Speech Learning with Diverse Inputs - Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University, Denmark & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, University of Western Sydney, Australia

12. Phonetic Input in Second Language Acquisition: Contrastive Analysis of Native and Non-native Sounds - Anja Steinlen, University of Southern Denmark

13. Developing Non-native Pronunciation in Immersion Settings - Henning Wode, Kiel University, Germany

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