Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by ZhaoHong Han

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 211
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the issue of fossilization in relation to a key question in SLA research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity to practice?

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What is Fossilization?
Chapter 3. Behavioral Reflexes and Causal Variables
Chapter 4. A Macroscopic Analysis: Critical Period Effects
Chapter 5. A Macroscopic Analysis: Native Language Transfer
Chapter 6. A Microscopic Analysis: Some Empirical Evidence
Chapter 7. Second Language Instruction and Fossilization
Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusion
References
Index

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