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The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition

Author : David Block
Publisher : Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition written by David Block and published by Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Second Language Acquisition?In recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding SLA. In The Social Turn in Second Language AcquisitionDavid Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the terms 'second', 'language' and 'acquisition'.Block discusses a wide variety of research by applied linguists and those working in SLA who have drawn on recent developments in social theory in their attempts to make sense of language practices and language learning. The main thread running through the text is the suggestion that SLA researchers need to concern themselves not only with language learning as an individual and primarily cognitive process, but also as a sociohistorically situated phenomenon.This book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA.Features:*New ideas about SLA and a useful critique of the field*Readable style*Includes an extensive bibliography of over 400 sources.

Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner

Author : Jenefer Philp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027219842
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner by : Jenefer Philp

Download or read book Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner written by Jenefer Philp and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children's cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners, creating intriguing issues for SLA research, and also raising important practical questions regarding effective pedagogical techniques for learners of different ages. While child SLA is often typically thought of as simple (and often enjoyable and universally effortless), in other words, as child's play, the complex portraits of young second language learners which emerge in the 16 papers collected in this book invite the reader to reconsider the reality for many younger learners. Chapters by internationally renowned authors together with reports by emerging researchers describe second and foreign language learning by children ranging from pre-schoolers to young adolescents, in home and school contexts, with caregivers, peers, and teachers as interlocutors.

The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition

Author : David Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474464505
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition written by David Block and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA.

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning

Author : Uju Anya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317402707
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning by : Uju Anya

Download or read book Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning written by Uju Anya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award* Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "transformative socialization": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves as they collaboratively construct and negotiate race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class identities. Uju Anya’s study follows African American college students learning Portuguese in Afro-Brazilian communities, and their journeys in learning to do and speak blackness in Brazil. Video-recorded interactions, student journals, interviews, and writing assignments show how multiple intersecting identities are enacted and challenged in second language learning. Thematic, critical, and conversation analyses describe ways black Americans learn to speak their material, ideological, and symbolic selves in Portuguese and how linguistic action reproduces or resists power and inequity. The book addresses key questions on how learners can authentically and effectively participate in classrooms and target language communities to show that black students' racialized identities and investments in these communities greatly influence their success in second language learning and how successful others perceive them to be.

Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Author : Dwight Atkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136825800
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition written by Dwight Atkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents seven alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition, and each approach is authored by a leading advocate for it in the field. Edited by Dwight Atkinson, and including contributions from James Lantolf, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Gabriele Kasper and Johannes Wagner, € Bonny Norton and Carolyn McKinney, Patricia Duff and Steven Talmy.

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Author : Shawn Loewen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317386752
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition by : Shawn Loewen

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition written by Shawn Loewen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first collection of state-of-the-art papers pertaining to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA). Written by 45 world-renowned experts, the entries are full-length articles detailing pertinent issues with up-to-date references. Each chapter serves three purposes: (1) provide a review of current literature and discussions of cutting edge issues; (2) share the authors’ understanding of, and approaches to, the issues; and (3) provide direct links between research and practice. In short, based on the chapters in this handbook, ISLA has attained a level of theoretical and methodological maturity that provides a solid foundation for future empirical and pedagogical discovery. This handbook is the ideal resource for researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduate students, teachers, and teacher-educators who are interested in second language learning and teaching. .

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse

Author : Brian Paltridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003847765
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse by : Brian Paltridge

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse written by Brian Paltridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive and accessible examination of perspectives within the field of discourse analysis on the processes and conditions of second language learning, teaching, and use. Led by Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior, this collection brings together leading global researchers in the field to guide readers through background theories, theoretical paradigms, methodological issues, and pedagogical implications by synthesizing current and past work, and setting a future agenda for discourse-oriented second language research. The book is a critical resource which will be indispensable for scholars and advanced students of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and related fields.

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136306056
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition by : Kimberly L. Geeslin

Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition written by Kimberly L. Geeslin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles of sociolinguistics, provides a unified account of the multiple theoretical approaches to social factors in second languages, summarizes the growing body of empirical research, including examples of findings from a wide range of second languages, and discusses the application of sociolinguistics to the second language classroom. Written for an audience that extends beyond specialists in the field, complete with summary tables, additional readings, discussion questions, and application activities throughout, this volume will serve as the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate students of second language acquisition and instruction, and will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of second language acquisition, second language instruction and sociolinguistics.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition

Author : Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 144411705X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Second Language Acquisition written by Lourdes Ortega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Understanding Variability in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and Cognition

Author : Kristin Kersten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100060957X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Variability in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and Cognition by : Kristin Kersten

Download or read book Understanding Variability in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and Cognition written by Kristin Kersten and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together linguistic, psychological, and sociological perspectives reflecting on the relationships and interactions of the multilayered factors impacting second language development and cognitive competence. The book advocates a system approach as a counterpoint to existing scholarship, which has tended to focus on a small set of variables. The 13 chapters demonstrate the ways in which cognitive and linguistic development are intrinsically linked, occurring within a nested structure of multiple levels: individual neuro-cognitive systems and processes, individual engagement with the social world, and the wider social and institutional environments and cultural contexts affecting the belief systems and linguistic conventions of social groups. The volume begins by outlining the theoretical and methodological foundations before moving into a more focused look at the interplay of these different variables at the macro, meso, and micro levels. A final section features two commentary chapters from linguistics and psychology, respectively, synthesizing insights from earlier chapters and situating the collection within broader scholarship on linguistic and cognitive development, theoretical and methodological implications, and discussions of avenues for future empirical research. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, cognition, psychology, and sociology.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics

Author : Naoko Taguchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351164066
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics written by Naoko Taguchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades. Demonstrating the ways in which pragmatics has long served as a lens through which to examine patterns of L2 development, the volume is divided into six parts which reflect the field’s structure and evolution: • Constructs and units of analysis • Theoretical approaches • Methodological approaches • Pedagogical approaches • Contexts and individual considerations • L2 pragmatics in the global era The handbook has a particular focus on covering not only traditional topics in the field, such as constructs of pragmatic competence (e.g., speech acts, implicature), teaching and assessment, and pragmatics learning in a study abroad program, but also emerging areas of study, including interactional pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, usage-based approaches, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistic experimentation. Each chapter introduces the topic and follows with a description of its theoretical underpinnings, an overview of existing literature, appraisal of current practice, concluding with a discussion of future directions for research and key readings. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition, pragmatics, and language teaching.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking

Author : Tracey M. Derwing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000532682
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking written by Tracey M. Derwing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive volume outlining the foremost issues regarding research and teaching of second language speaking, examining such diverse topics as cognitive processing, articulation, knowledge of pragmatics, instruction in sub-components of speaking (e.g., grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary) and the attrition of the first language. Outstanding academics have contributed chapters to provide an integrated and inclusive perspective on oral language skills. Specialized contexts for speaking are also explored (e.g., English as a Lingua Franca, workplace, and interpreting). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education.

The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Author : William C. Ritchie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848552408
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition by : William C. Ritchie

Download or read book The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition written by William C. Ritchie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia's 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA. Part I includes a recent history of methods used in SLA research and an overview of currently used methods. Part II contains chapters on Universal Grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic. Part III is devoted to overviews of SLA research on lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, sentence processing, and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Part IV examines neuropsycholgy of SLA, another on child SLA, and the effects of age on second language acquisition and use. Part V is concerned with the contribution of the linguistic environment to SLA, including work on acquisition in different environments, through the Internet, and by deaf learners. Finally, Part VI treats social factors in SLA, including research on acquisition in contact circumstances, on social identity in SLA, on individual differences in SLA, and on the final state of SLA, bilingualism.

Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning Environment

Author : Christina L. Isabelli-García
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030251578
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning Environment written by Christina L. Isabelli-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to introduce novice student researchers to second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment. It reviews the existing literature and provides the emerging researcher an overview of the important factors to consider, informs them where to begin, and how to move forth an agenda for future research in this field. The book recognizes that aside from the academic advantages, study abroad programmes are an excellent tool for fostering extended and relevant interaction with native speakers. It provides reflection questions and activities, and guides the novice researcher in critically analysing existing research and to eventually carry out their own study. The book will be of use to beginning researchers who are new to linguistics in the areas of study abroad and second language acquisition.

Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Author : Shawn Loewen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317206010
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition written by Shawn Loewen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a cohesive view of the different theoretical and pedagogical perspectives that comprise instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). Loewen provides comprehensive discussions of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical aspects of a range of key issues in ISLA, and has added to this edition a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between ISLA research and second language pedagogy. Also new is the addition of supporting features including new end-of-chapter activities, points for reflection, and discussion questions, as well as thoroughly revised content to reflect the most recent research in ISLA. This is an essential resource for students new to ISLA, or working in second language acquisition more generally.

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Author : María del Pilar García Mayo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272220
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition written by María del Pilar García Mayo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.

Talking About Second Language Acquisition

Author : Karim Sadeghi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030997588
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Talking About Second Language Acquisition written by Karim Sadeghi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes interviews with fourteen internationally-acclaimed leading figures in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), who speak on seminal issues in the field as well as their own contributions to SLA scholarship. As well as covering the contributors’ backgrounds and academic achievements, the interviews also delve into their areas of expertise, current theoretical and practical considerations, and contemporary questions, developments and challenges in SLA. The author probes their views on current topics including input and interaction, vocabulary acquisition, teaching pronunciation, writing development, syntactic processing, multilingualism, L1 attrition, complex dynamic systems, processing instruction, instructed second language acquisition, and technology in language teaching. An introduction by the author draws out the key themes and debates in the field today, and highlights areas for future research and further exploration, and a foreword is provided by Rod Ellis. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Applied Linguistics, Teacher Education and Methodology, and Second and Foreign Language Education.