Elements in Second Language Acquisition – serie
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Pragmatics, Grammar and Meaning in SLA
Av Aoife K. Ahern, José Amenós-Pons m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element explores the role of pragmatics, and its relationship with meaning and grammar, in second language acquisition. Specifically, this Element examines the generative paradigm, with its focus on purely linguistic aspects, in contrast with, and complemented by, the view of language adopted …
Explicit and Implicit Learning in Second Language Acquisition
Av Bill VanPatten, Megan Smith
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element explores the roles of explicit and implicit learning in second language acquisition. The authors lay out some key issues that they take to underlie the debate on the extent to which second language acquisition involves explicit learning, implicit learning, or both. They also discuss …
Input
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Input is the name of a topic - the way that language 'out there' impacts the development of interlanguage, within the individual. It is perhaps the most important aspect of second language learning. This Element offers an overview of the key concepts related to input and the major lines of research …
Thinking and Speaking in a Second Language
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Does the language we speak affect the way we think? This Element provides a synthesis of contemporary research on the interplay between language and cognition in speakers of two or more languages and examines variables deemed to impact bilingual acquisition and conceptualization of …
Processability Theory
Av Manfred Pienemann, Anke Lenzing
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Processability Theory (PT) is a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition. The theory builds on the fundamental assumption that learners can acquire only those linguistic forms and functions which they can process. Therefore, PT is based on the architecture of the human language …
Input
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Input is the name of a topic - the way that language 'out there' impacts the development of interlanguage, within the individual. It is perhaps the most important aspect of second language learning. This Element offers an overview of the key concepts related to input and the major lines of research …
Pragmatics, Grammar and Meaning in SLA
Av Aoife K. Ahern, José Amenós-Pons m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element explores the role of pragmatics, and its relationship with meaning and grammar, in second language acquisition. Specifically, this Element examines the generative paradigm, with its focus on purely linguistic aspects, in contrast with, and complemented by, the view of language adopted …
Processability Theory
Av Manfred Pienemann, Anke Lenzing
Inbunden, 2025
918 kr
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Processability Theory (PT) is a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition. The theory builds on the fundamental assumption that learners can acquire only those linguistic forms and functions which they can process. Therefore, PT is based on the architecture of the human language …
Generative Second Language Acquisition
Av Roumyana Slabakova, Tania Leal m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Most human beings grow up speaking more than one language; a lot of us also acquire an additional language or languages other than our mother tongue. This Element in the Second Language Acquisition series investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages later in life and introduces the …
Focus on Form
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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This Cambridge Element examines the role and nature of focus on form in second language acquisition. An overall assessment of the role of instruction and the nature of language is provided. Instruction might have a facilitative role in the rate of acquisition. The Element briefly reviews empirical …
Implicit Language Aptitude
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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It is a well-known fact that some adult second language learners learn more rapidly and/or to a higher level of proficiency than others. Some of these individual differences have been linked to differences in cognitive and perceptual abilities under the umbrella term of 'language aptitude'. The …
Proficiency Predictors in Sequential Bilinguals
The Proficiency Puzzle
Av Lynette Austin, Arturo E. Hernandez m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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This Element provides an overview of research considering variables deemed to impact bilingual language acquisition, and highlights research outcomes from a variety of disciplines. An exploratory study takes into account these variables and examines the language acquisition of adult Spanish-English …
Interaction
Av Jennifer Behney, Susan Gass
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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This Element in the Cambridge Elements in Second Language Acquisition series examines the role of interaction in Second Language Acquisition research, with a focus on the cognitive interactionist approach. The Element describes the major branches of the field, considering the importance of …
The Acquisition of Aspect in a Second Language
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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The acquisition of the aspect is a central area in Second Language Acquisition research, the subject of hundreds of papers and dozens of edited volumes, monographs and special issues. This introduction provides the reader not only with a concise and plain presentation of the main hypotheses …