Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Richard Towell; Roger Hawkins

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book the authors address five central problems in the study of second language acquisition: transfer, staged development, cross-learner systematicity, incompleteness and variability. The book begins with a definition of each of these areas and an indication of why they are important for understanding SLA.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition
2 Early Linguistic Approaches to Explaining the Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition
3 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Explaining the Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition
4 Cognitive Approaches to Explaining the Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition
5 The Approach to Second Language Acquisition Based on Universal Grammar
6 Parametric Variation and Transfer in Second Language Acquisition
7 Parametric Variation and Incompleteness in Second Language Acquisition
8 Parametric Variation, Staged Development and Cross-learner Systematicity in Second Language Acquisition
9 Parametric Variation, Variability and the Limits of the Explanatory Power of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition
10 Explanations of Variability
11 Hypothesis Creation and Revision
12 The Development of Language Processing
13 Approaches to Learner Strategies
14 Towards a Model of Second Language Acquisition
Bibliography
Index