Variation Theory and Second Language Acquisition
Author : Hugh Douglas Adamson
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theories
Author : Thom Huebner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027224633
Book Description
The term crosscurrent is defined as a current flowing counter to another. This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from theory to application, equally important contributions can be made in the other direction as well. Second, although there is a strong tendency in the field of linguistics to see theorists working within formal models of syntax, SLA research can contribute to linguistic theory more broadly defined to include various functional as well as formal models of syntax, theories of phonology, variationist theories of sociolinguists, etc. These assumptions formed the basis for a conference held at Stanford University during the Linguistic Institute there in the summer of 1987. The conference was organized to update the relation between second language acquisition and linguistic theory. This book contains a selection of (mostly revised and updated) papers of this conference and two newly written papers.
Interlanguage Variation in Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective
Author : H.D. Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135600821
Book Description
In this book H.D. Adamson reviews scholarship in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, comparing theories of variation in first and second-language speech, with special attention to the psychological underpinnings of variation theory. Interlanguage is what second language learners speak. It contains syntactic, morphological and phonological patterns that are not those of either the first or the second language, and which can be analyzed using the principles and techniques of variation theory. Interlanguage Variation in Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective: relates the emerging field of variation in second language learners’ speech (interlanguage) to the established field of variation in native speakers’ speech relates the theory of linguistic variation with psycholinguistic models of language processing relates sociolinguistic variation theory to the theory of Cognitive Grammar suggests teaching applications that follow from the theoretical discussion At the forefront of scholarship in the fields of interlanguage and variation theory scholarship, this book is directed to graduate students and researchers in applied English linguistics and second language acquisition, especially those with a background in sociolinguistics.
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation
Author : Robert Bayley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241163
Book Description
This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner's age and so forth. These studies bolster the idea that a full account of SLA development (and, hence, a theory of SLA) must be built on not only detailed accounts of interlanguage data but also on a wide appeal to factors which govern the psycholinguistic bases of SLA. An important addition to the volume is a comprehensive guide to both the DOS and Macintosh versions of the VARBRUL statistical program used by variationists.
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition
Author : Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027259763
Book Description
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered stages of language acquisition, the book provides an informative, critical analysis of historical and contemporary debates about the role of variation in linguistic variation, particularly second language variation. Richly illustrated with a forensic year-long study of how eight adolescent learners of English vary in their acquisition of syntax and morphology, this monograph shows that learners vary in their timing of development between two distinct learner types along a continuum and without skipping stages. The book uncovers how learner variation is dynamic and quite (although not entirely) systematic and how this variation contributes to change in the second language. It will be essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners.
Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition
Author : Maya Hickmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265321
Book Description
Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of the input to children across contexts, and several aspects of the learners themselves. Chapters explore these sources of variation within an interdisciplinary and comparative approach allying theories and methodologies stemming from linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. The comparative perspective involves different languages, contexts of use, types of learners (first/second language acquisition, monolingual/bilingual learners, autism, language impairment), as well as vocal and visuo-gestural communicative modalities (co-verbal gestures, sign language acquisition). The volume points to the need to enhance interdisciplinary research using complementary methodologies to further examine sources of variation and to integrate variation into a more general developmental theory.
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
Author : Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Book Description
Variation in Interlanguage Morphology
Author : Richard Young
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
This major contribution to second language acquisition theory examines the question of the systematicity of learners' language. Richard Young proposes a new descriptive model for handling what other investigators have claimed to be random variations in performance, and he tests the model on plural inflections in the English interlanguage of Chinese learners. The study investigates how factors such as the social context of speech, the linguistic environment of a variable, and the tendency to omit redundant information affect the developing interlanguage system. The representation of learners' language which emerges from this study is richer, more complex, and more descriptively adequate than has previously been available.
Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan
Author : Anna Ghimenton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027259755
Book Description
This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive approaches to language acquisition. The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing conceptions of language acquisition across the lifespan that take into account language-internal and cross-linguistic variation in contexts of both first and second language acquisition as well as of first and second dialect acquisition. The volume brings together theoretical and empirical research and provides an excellent basis for scholars and students wanting to delve into the social and cognitive dimensions of both the production and perception of sociolinguistic variation. The book enables the reader to understand, on the one hand, how variation is acquired in childhood or at a later stage and, on the other, how perception and production feed into one another, thus building up our understanding of the social meanings underpinning language variation.
An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research
Author : Diane Larsen-Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317869230
Book Description
Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue. Second languages are vitally important to diverse groups of people, ranging from refugees to college students facing foreign language requirements. This book provides a synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language learning by children and adults, emphasising the design and execution of appropriate research.
