Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course

✍ Scribed by Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 612
• Series: Topics in Applied Psycholinguistics
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

TheВ new and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook is a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition. In an easy-to-read, accessible style, it provides students with information about the scope of the field, but also provides background information on related areas such as first language acquisition. The book introduces students to current issues of data collection and data analysis, as well as provides an historical overview of the field, thus giving students context and perspective about how today's issues arise from earlier approaches.

Each chapter offers discussion questions and/or problems so that students can put their knowledge to use in a way that is relevant to what they have learned, but that also challenges them to go beyond what is in the chapter and to relate information across chapters.

The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic perspectives. It also includes a chapter on the lexicon and on instructed second language learning. The concluding chapter pulls the information in the previous chapters together into a coherent framework that challenges students to think about the field of second language acquisition as a whole.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 16
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 20
2 RELATED DISCIPLINES......Page 39
3 SECOND AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE DATA......Page 60
4 THE ROLE OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW......Page 108
5 RECENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF PREVIOUSLY KNOWN LANGUAGES......Page 140
6 FORMAL APPROACHES TO SLA......Page 178
7 TYPOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES......Page 210
8 LOOKING AT INTERLANGUAGE PROCESSING......Page 238
9 INTERLANGUAGE IN CONTEXT......Page 278
10 INPUT, INTERACTION, AND OUTPUT......Page 323
11 INSTRUCTED SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING......Page 387
12 BEYOND THE DOMAIN OF LANGUAGE......Page 414
13 THE LEXICON......Page 468
14 AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION......Page 498
NOTES......Page 524
GLOSSARY......Page 533
REFERENCES......Page 542
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 596
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 602

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Психолингвистика;