Investigating Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Peter Jordens (editor); Josine Lalleman (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 484
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; 12
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book concerns theoretical, interdisciplinary and methodological issues in L2 acquisition research. It gives an accurate and up-to-date overview of high quality work currently in progress in research methodology, processing, principles and parameters theory, phonology, the bilingual lexicon, input and instruction. The volume will have the purpose of a handbook for teachers, students and researchers in the area of second language acquisition. The aim is to provide the reader with an acquisition perspective on processes of second and foreign language learning.

✦ Table of Contents

General introduction
The state of the art in second language acquisition research
Crosslinguistic influence with special reference to the acquisition of grammar
Methodological issues
Second language acquisition by adult immigrants: A multiple case study of Turkish and Moroccan learners of Dutch
Processing
Some experimental tasks in the study of word recognition
Strategies
Syntax: Principles
Universal grammar in second language acquisition
Are there principles of universal grammar that do not apply to second language acquisition?
Syntax: Parameters
Parameters in non-native language acquisition
Parameter setting and the acquisition of wh-questions in L2 French
Phonology
A new research programme for the L2 acquisition of phonology
Second language phonology
Speech perception and L2 phonological acquisition
The lexicon
Lexicon and grammar in second language learning
The lexicon in second language acquisition
Acquisition and learning
Input and instruction in second language acquisition
Index