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Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Studies on Language Acquisition 25, Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 25
ISBN/EAN: 9783110179705
Umbreit-Nr.: 1267262
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: IX, 568 S., Figs. and tabs.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 18.04.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
- Zusatztext
- Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others may favour a more qualitative and hermeneutic analytic approach. Many of these issues and methods are exemplified by the contributions to this volume. Data-based studies included here deal with the acquisition of specific linguistic phenomena (e.g. verb and noun morphology, lexicon, clause structures) in a range of target languages (e.g. English, French, German, Russian) from a variety of settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g. traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the productivity and diversity of current research on instructed second language acquisition. As such they serve as a valuable resource for researchers in SLA, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and language education.
- Kurztext
- Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
- Autorenportrait
- Alex Housen is Lecturer at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Michel Pierrard is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)