Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory CourseThis book is a thorough revision of the text first published in 1994. The authors retain the multidisciplinary approach that presents research from linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, in a format designed for use in an introductory course for undergraduate or graduate students. The research is updated throughout and there are new sections and chapters in this second edition as well. New chapters cover child language acquisition (first and second), Universal Grammar, and instructed language learning; new sections address issues, such as what data analysis doesn't show, replication of research findings, interlanguage transfer (multilingual acquisition and transfer), the aspect hypothesis, general nativism, connectionist approaches, and implicit/explicit knowledge. Major updates include nonlanguage influences and the lexicon. --From publisher's description. |
Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 LOOKING AT INTERLANGUAGE DATA | 17 |
AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW | 65 |
FIRST AND SECOND | 92 |
CHAPTER 5 RECENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF PREVIOUSLY KNOWN LANGUAGES | 112 |
CHAPTER 6 SLA AND LINGUISTICS | 141 |
CHAPTER 7 UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR | 168 |
CHAPTER 8 LOOKING AT INTERLANGUAGE PROCESSES | 192 |
CHAPTER 11 INSTRUCTED SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING | 310 |
CHAPTER 12 NONLANGUAGE INFLUENCES | 329 |
CHAPTER 13 THE LEXICON | 372 |
CHAPTER 14 AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | 398 |
REFERENCES | 415 |
GLOSSARY | 450 |
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Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course Susan M. Gass,Larry Selinker Limited preview - 2001 |
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course Susan M. Gass,Larry Selinker No preview available - 2001 |
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