Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

Danuta Gabryś-Barker lectures in applied linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Her main areas of interest are multilingualism and affectivity in SLA. Professor Gabryś-Barker has published numerous articles and two books Aspects of Multilingual Storage, Processing and Retrieval (2005) and Reflectivity in Pre-service Teacher Education (2012). She is the chief editor (together with Eva Vetter) of the International Journal of Multilingualism.

This volume should be of interest not only to linguists and applied linguists, but also to graduate researchers of SLA since many of the contributions include reviews of the relevant theoretical issues. It is an excellent volume with challenging insights that should lead to a new thinking on morphosyntax development in SLA and to a departure from more traditional empirical data measurement to newer introspective-type research instrumentation.

• Preface Contributors Part 1: Studies on ESL/EFL Morphosyntactic Development 1. Focus Constructions and Meaning Transfer - Terence Odlin 2. Argument Realization and Information Packaging in Tough-movement Constructions - A Learner-Corpus-Based Investigation - Marcus Callies 3. L1 Syntactic Preferences of Polish Adolescents in Bilingual and Monolingual Education Programmes - Anna Ewert 4. MOGUL and Crosslinguistic Influence - Mike Sharwood-Smith and John Truscott 5. Syntactic Processing of a Multilingual Language User (A Case Study) - Danuta Gabrys-Barker 6. The Morphology -me in Modern Greek as L2: How German and Russian L2 Learners Interpret Verbal Constructions - Irini Kassotaki 7. Unaccusativity Marks - Konrad Szczesniak 8. To Move or not to Move: Acquisition of L2 English Syntactic Movement Parameter - Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci and Esra Altunkol 9. Last to Acquire: On the Relation of Concession in Interpreting - Andrzej Lyda 10. Pragmatic (In) Competence in EFL Writing Learners - Ruediger Zimmermann Part 2: Pedagogical Grammar in Promoting Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax 11. The Role of Explicit Rule Presentation in Teaching English Articles to Polish Learners - Agnieszka Krol-Markefka 12. The Effect of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of the English Third Person- s Ending - Miroslaw Pawlak 13. The Acquisition of German Syntax by Polish Learners in Classroom Conditions - Barbara Sadownik 14. Introducing Language Interface in Pedagogical Grammar - Michal Paradowski 15. Towards Reflecting the Dynamic Nature of Grammar in Language Instruction: Expectations and Current Pedagogic Practice - Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak