Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Bill VanPatten; Alessandro G. Benati

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The new edition of Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition defines the key terminology within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this complex area of study. The final section presents a list of key readings in second language acquisition that signposts the reader towards classic articles and also provides a springboard to further study. The whole book has been updated and expanded to take into account a wider range of theories and developments since the first edition. It remains at the top of its game.
The text is accessibly written, with complicated terms and concepts explained in an easy to understand way. Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition is an essential resource for students.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is second language acquisition?
A brief history of SLA
Second language acquisition and second language teaching
About this book
Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition
Question 1: What is the initial state?
Question 2: Can L2 learners become native-like?
Question 3: Is there a critical period?
Question 4: What does development look like?
Question 5: What are the roles of explicit and implicit learning in SLA?
Question 6: What are the roles of input and output in SLA?
Question 7: What are individual differences and how do they affect acquisition?
Question 8: Does instruction make a difference?
Question 9: What constraints are there on acquisition?
Key Theories and Frameworks in Second Language Acquisition
Universal Grammar and linguistic theory
Emergentism and usage-based theories
The Declarative/Procedural Model
Complexity Theory/Dynamic Systems
Input processing
The Interaction Hypothesis
Processability Theory
Sociocultural Theory
Skill Acquisition Theory
Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition
Accessibility Hierarchy/Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy
Acculturation model
Acquisition/acquisition versus learning
Acquisition orders
Adaptive Control of Thought model
Affective (filter, activities, and so on)
Applied linguistics
Aptitude
Aspect
Attention
Automatization
Awareness
Avoidance
Behaviorism
Bilingual/bilingualism
Caretaker speech/modified input
Cognitive style
Cognitive theory
Communicative competence
Communication strategies
Competence
Competition Model
Connectionism
Consciousness raising
Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
Creative Construction Hypothesis
Critical Period Hypothesis
Declarative/procedural knowledge
Descriptive grammar
Detection
Developing system/approximative system
Developmental sequences/stages of development
Discourse/discourse analysis
Emergentism
Error/error analysis
Event-related potentials/ERPs
Explicit knowledge/implicit knowledge
Feedback
fMRIs
Focus on form/s
Foreigner talk
Formal instruction
Form-meaning/function connections
Formulaic sequences/chunks
Fossilization
Frequency in the input
Functional approaches
Fundamental Difference Hypothesis
Grammar
Grammaticality judgments
i + 1
Incidental learning
Individual differences
Input
Input enhancement
Input Hypothesis
Innatist position
Input processing
Intake
Interaction/Interaction Hypothesis
Interlanguage
L1 = L2 Hypothesis
Language Acquisition Device
Learning strategies
Learning styles
Lexicon
Markedness
Meaning
Mental representation of language
Metalinguistic knowledge
MO GUL
Monitor/monitoring/Monitor Theory
Morphemes/morpheme studies
Morphology/morphological inflection
Motivation
Native language/native-like
Nativism/Nativist Theory
Naturalistic
Natural Order Hypothesis
Negative evidence
Negotiation of meaning
Neurolinguistics
Noticing/Noticing Hypothesis
On-line/off-line tasks
Output/Output Hypothesis
Overgeneralization
Parameters/parameter setting
Parsing
Performance
Phonology
Pidginization
Positive emission tomography/PET
Positive evidence
Poverty of the stimulus
Pragmatics
Principles (of Universal Grammar)
Procedural knowledge
Processability
Processing
Processing instruction
Projection/Projection Hypothesis
Psycholinguistics
Recasts
Redundancy
Regularization
Reinforcement
Repetition
Restructuring
Salience
Scaffolding
Second language/foreign language
Selective attention
Sensitive period
Semantics
The Shallow Structure Hypothesis
Silent Period
Skill/s
Social factors
Sociolinguistics
Speech acts
Stabilization
Stages of development/staged development
Subjacency
Syntax
Systematicity
Target-like use
Task
Teachability
Tense
Transfer
Truth-value tasks
Typological universals
Ultimate attainment
Universal Grammar
Uptake
U-shaped acquisition
Variability/variation
Working memory
Key Readings