Author : Pekka Lintunen
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Fluency (Language learning)
ISBN : 9781788926294
This interdisciplinary book brings together a selection of theoretical and empirical approaches to second language (L2) fluency. The volume includes chapters approaching fluency from an SLA perspective and integrates perspectives from related fields, such as psycholinguistics, sign language studies and L2 assessment.
Author : Pekka Lintunen
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788926315
This book brings together theoretical and empirical approaches to second language (L2) fluency and provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on the topic. The strength of the volume lies in its interdisciplinarity: the chapters approach fluency from non-traditional starting points and go beyond disciplinary boundaries in their contributions. The volume includes chapters investigating fluency from an L2 perspective and integrates perspectives from related fields, such as psycholinguistics, sign language studies and L2 assessment. The book extends the common foci and approaches of fluency studies and offers new perspectives that enable readers to evaluate critically existing paradigms and models. This encourages the development of more comprehensive frameworks and directs future L2 fluency research into new areas of L2 learning and use.
Author : Lynda Pritchard Newcombe
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853599948
The focus in this book is on learners experiences using Welsh outside class but the issues discussed have implications for a wide range of other situations where the population is bilingual or multilingual and interaction takes place in a language of wider communication.
Author : Parvaneh Tavakoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108603432
Second language (L2) fluency is an exciting and fast-moving field of research, with clear practical applications in language teaching. This book provides a lively overview of the current advances in the field of L2 fluency, and connects the theory to practice, presenting a hands-on approach to using fluency research across a range of different language-related professions. The authors introduce an innovative multidisciplinary perspective, which brings together research into cognitive and social factors, to understand fluency as a dynamic variable in language performance, connecting learner-internal factors such as speech processing and automaticity, to external factors such as task demands, language testing, and pragmatic interactional demands in communication. Bringing a much-needed multidisciplinary and novel approach to understanding the complex nature of L2 speech fluency, this book provides researchers, students and language professionals with both the theoretical insights and practical tools required to understand and research how fluency in a second language develops.
Author : Pekka Lintunen
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788926323
This book brings together theoretical and empirical approaches to second language (L2) fluency and provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on the topic. The strength of the volume lies in its interdisciplinarity: the chapters approach fluency from non-traditional starting points and go beyond disciplinary boundaries in their contributions. The volume includes chapters investigating fluency from an L2 perspective and integrates perspectives from related fields, such as psycholinguistics, sign language studies and L2 assessment. The book extends the common foci and approaches of fluency studies and offers new perspectives that enable readers to evaluate critically existing paradigms and models. This encourages the development of more comprehensive frameworks and directs future L2 fluency research into new areas of L2 learning and use.
Author : Norman Segalowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136968830
Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that points to promising avenues for understanding and promoting second language fluency. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency covers essential topics such as units of analysis for measuring fluency, the relation of second language fluency to general cognitive fluidity, social and motivational contributors to fluency, and neural correlates of fluency. The author provides clear and accessible summaries of foundational empirical work on speech production, automaticity, lexical access, and other issues of relevance to second language acquisition theory. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency is a valuable reference for scholars in SLA, cognitive psychology, and language teaching, and it can also serve as an ideal textbook for advanced courses in these fields.
Author : Vittorio Tantucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108484824
Proposes a new empirical model to analyse how humans can express social cognition at different levels of complexity.
Author : Alex Housen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027213054
Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack of clarity as to how complexity, accuracy and fluency should be defined, operationalized and measured. The present volume showcases current research on CAF by bringing together eleven contributions from renowned international researchers in the field. These contributions not only add to the body of empirical knowledge about L2 use and L2 development by bringing new research findings to light but they also address fundamental theoretical and methodological issues by responding to questions about the nature, manifestation, development and assessment of CAF as multifaceted constructs. Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the converging and sometimes diverging approaches that different disciplines bring to CAF research.
Author : Pascale Leclercq
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783092289
This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring second language (L2) proficiency from different branches of SLA. The chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners' language level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a valid, reliable and practical manner.
Author : Kat— Lomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1606437062
KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.
