Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Teresa Cadierno (editor); Søren Wind Eskildsen (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]; 30
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning – perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of contributors
Advancing usage-based approaches to L2 studies
Part I: Perspectives on usage in L2 learning and teaching
Multidimensional SLA
Cognitive and Social Aspects of Learning from Usage
Designing for Language Learning in the Wild: Creating social infrastructures for second language learning
Part II: The role of frequency and exposure in L2 learning
Structural priming and the acquisition of novel form-meaning mappings
Input and language competence in early-start foreign language classrooms
Online informal learning of English: frequency effects in the uptake of chunks of language from participation in web-based activities
Part III: Development of L2 interactional and constructional competence
Long-term development in an instructed adult L2 learner: Usage-based and complexity theory applied
On the development of motion constructions in four learners of L2 English
The development of L2 interactional competence: evidence from turn-taking organization, sequence organization, repair organization and preference organization
Part IV: Usage-based L2 pedagogy
“I told you”: Storytelling development of a Japanese learning English as a Second Language
A Dynamic Usage-based Approach to Second Language Teaching
L1, quantity of exposure to L2, and reading disability as factors in L2 literacy skills
Part V: Synthesis
Usage-based SLA: A Research Habitus Whose Time Has Come
Subject index