Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Rixhard Towell and Roger Hawkins

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters, Ltd.
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines five central issues of second language acquisition: transfer, staged development, cross-learner systematicity, incompleteness and variability. It is argued that the first four of the five central issues receive a more satisfactory account than has been previously provided through an approach based on universal grammar. The fifth - variability - requires an account based on requirements of language use and language processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 1
Copyright © 1994......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
1 The Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition......Page 19
2 Early Linguistic Approaches to Explaining the Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition......Page 29
3 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Explaining the Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition......Page 45
4 Cognitive Approaches to Explaining the Observable Phenomena of Second Language Acquisition......Page 57
5 The Approach to Second Language Acquisition Based on Universal Grammar......Page 69
6 Parametric Variation and Transfer in Second Language Acquisition......Page 86
7 Parametric Variation and Incompleteness in Second Language Acquisition......Page 122
8 Parametric Variation, Staged Development and Cross-learner Systematicity in Second Language Acquisition......Page 141
9 Parametric Variation, Variability and the Limits of the Explanatory Power of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition......Page 154
10 Explanations of Variability......Page 165
11 Hypothesis Creation and Revision......Page 186
12 The Development of Language Processing......Page 213
13 Approaches to Learner Strategies......Page 238
14 Towards a Model of Second Language Acquisition......Page 257
Bibliography......Page 279
Index......Page 289