Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Dwight Atkinson (Editor)

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis (Routledge)
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents six alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition – 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All six approaches – sociocultural, complexity theory, conversation-analytic, identity, language socialization, and sociocognitive – are described according to the same set of six headings, allowing for direct comparison across approaches. Each chapter is authored by leading advocates for the approach described: James Lantolf for the sociocultural approach; Diane Larsen-Freeman for the complexity theory approach; Gabriele Kasper and Johannes Wagner for the conversation-analytic approach; Bonny Norton and Carolyn McKinney for the identity approach; Patricia Duff and Steven Talmy for the language socialization approach and Dwight Atkinson for the sociocognitive approach. Introductory and commentary chapters round out this volume. The editor’s introduction describes the significance of alternative approaches to SLA studies given its strongly cognitivist orientation. Lourdes Ortega’s commentary considers the six approaches from an 'enlightened traditional' perspective on SLA studies – a viewpoint which is cognitivist in orientation but broad enough to give serious and balanced consideration to alternative approaches. This volume is essential reading in the field of second language acquisition.

✦ Table of Contents

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: Cognitivism and second language acquisition......Page 14
1 THE SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: Sociocultural theory, second language acquisition, and artificial L2 development......Page 37
2 A COMPLEXITY THEORY APPROACH TO SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT/ACQUISITION......Page 61
3 AN IDENTITY APPROACH TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION......Page 86
4 LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: Social, cultural, and linguistic development in additional languages......Page 108
5 A CONVERSATION-ANALYTIC APPROACH TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION......Page 130
6 A SOCIOCOGNITIVE APPROACH TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: How mind, body, and world work together in learning additional languages......Page 156
7 SLA AFTER THE SOCIAL TURN: Where cognitivism and its alternatives stand......Page 180
INDEX......Page 194

✦ Subjects

Педагогика;Методики преподавания;Методика преподавания иностранных языков;