Author : Lynda Pritchard Newcombe
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,79 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 : Pekka Lintunen
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,96 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 : Parvaneh Tavakoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 17,52 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 : Muriel Saville-Troike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107010896
A clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition, written for students encountering the topic for the first time.
Author : Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Author : Norman Segalowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 15,6 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 : Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 144411705X
Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.
Author : Barbara F. Freed
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241147
"Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context" brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in this collection is on various aspects of second language learning, including the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, the acquisition of fluency, the use of communicative strategies and the development of oral and written skills. The studies are cross-linguistic and deal with student populations at the secondary and college levels who spent between three months and one year in study abroad or exchange programs in Japan, Russia, Spain, Mexico, France or Canada.
Author : Ken Hyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1108425070
Offers an up-to-date analysis of issues related to providing, using and researching feedback, including new developments in technology.
Author : Peijian Paul Sun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 981156941X
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic review of multilingual L2 learners’ spoken Chinese, focusing on the dual dimensions of speech competence and speech performance. Specifically, by adopting a mixed-methods approach, it explores the cognitive, affective, and socio-cultural differences between intermediate and advanced multilingual learners’ L2 Chinese speech competence and speech performance. Drawing on a theoretical framework underpinned by the affective filter hypothesis, L2 willingness to communicate model, L2 motivational self-system, and L2 speech production models, this book not only contributes to our theoretical understanding of the roles of various factors in L2 Chinese speech competence and speech performance, but also offers practical insights into the implications for both teachers and learners in terms of how to minimize the gap between these two dimensions among L2 Chinese learners. It concludes with a discussion on the limitations of L2 Chinese speech and on future directions for the field.
