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Fossilized Second Language Grammars
Author | : Florencia Franceschina |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-12-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027293985 |
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This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second language may contribute to the L2 knowledge that they can ultimately attain. The empirical study focuses on a group of very advanced L2 speakers, and through a series of tests aims to discover what underpins their near mastery of grammatical gender and other grammatical properties.The book explores an account of persistent selective divergence based on the idea that child and adult learners are fundamentally similar, except that in adults the L1 plays the role of a fairly rigid filter of the linguistic input. The impossibility of representing the new target language other than by using the building blocks of the previously established L1 is argued to be the main reason why near but not totally native like language representations are formed and become established in adult L2 learners.
Fossilized Second Language Grammars
Author | : Florencia Franceschina |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902725298X |
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This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition. Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner's first language and the age at which they acquire their second language may contribute to the L2 knowledge that they can ultimately attain. The empirical study focuses on a group of very advanced L2 speakers, and through a series of tests aims to discover what underpins their near mastery of grammatical gender and other grammatical properties. The book explores an account of persistent selective divergence based on the idea that child and adult learners are fundamentally similar, except that in adults the L1 plays the role of a fairly rigid filter of the linguistic input. The impossibility of representing the new target language other than by using the building blocks of the previously established L1 is argued to be the main reason why near but not totally native like language representations are formed and become established in adult L2 learners.
Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition
Author | : Zhaohong Han,Terence Odlin |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853598356 |
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This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization, a classic problem of second language acquisition. It covers a wide range of perspectives and issues. The analyses discussed herein address key concerns of many second language researchers and teachers with regard to just how far anyone can go in learning a new language.
Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition
Author | : Zhaohong Han |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853596868 |
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This book is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity to practice?
Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition
Author | : Margaret Thomas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781134388547 |
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From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the fact that human languages share important properties despite their obvious differences, and the story of how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning. In narrating these two stories, the author argues that modern second language acquisition theory needs to reassess what counts as its own past. The book addresses Greek contributions to the prehistory of universal grammar, Roman bilingualism, the emergence of the first foreign language grammars in the early Middle Ages, and the Medieval speculative grammarians efforts to define the essentials of human language. The author shows how after the renaissance expanded people's awareness of language differences, scholars returned to the questions of universals in the context of second language learning, including in the 1660 Port-Royal grammar which Chomsky notoriously celebrated in Cartesian Linguistics. The book then looks at how Post-Saussurean European linguistics and American structuralism up to modern generative grammar have each differently conceived of universals and language learning. Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition is a remarkable contribution to the history of linguistics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, specialists in second language acquisition and language teacher-educators.
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Author | : Susan M. Gass,Alison Mackey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136666896 |
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This handbook brings together 50 leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of second language acquisition.
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Author | : Lydia White |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027224613 |
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This authoritative textbook provides an overview and analysis of current second language acquisition research conducted within the generative linguistic framework. Lydia White argues that second language acquisition is constrained by principles and parameters of universal grammar.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition
Author | : Peter Robinson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781136485572 |
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: • 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading • Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. • The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from “Accommodation” to the “ZISA project.” Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.