Conditions for Second Language Learning

Conditions for Second Language Learning

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  • Author: Bernard Spolsky
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780194370639
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

A general theory of second language learning - Knowing a language - Knowing how to use a language - Structures and functions - Measuring knowledge of a second language - The psycholinguistic basis - Ability and personality - The linguistic basic - The social context - Attitudes and motivation - Opportunities for second language learning - Formal instruction - Testing the model - The form of a general theory.


Conditions for Second Language Learning

Conditions for Second Language Learning

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  • Author: Bernard Spolsky
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780194370868
  • Category : Language and langauges
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272


Second Language Education

Second Language Education

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  • Author: David Corson
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9780792349310
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

The contributions to the volume examine in detail diverse aspects of second language education, ranging from a focus on the basic contributions of linguistic theory and research to our understanding of second language learning and teaching on the one hand, to a series of reviews of innovative language education practices in selected regions of the world on the other.


Practice in a Second Language

Practice in a Second Language

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  • Author: Robert DeKeyser
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521684040
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

This volume focuses on 'practice' from a theoretical perspective and includes implications for the classroom.


Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Shawn Loewen
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136305920
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present a cohesive view of the different theoretical and pedagogical perspectives that comprise instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), defined as any type of learning that occurs as a result of the manipulating the process and conditions of second language acquisition. The book begins by considering the effectiveness of ISLA and the differences between ISLA and naturalistic L2 learning. It then goes on to discuss the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical aspects of such key issues in ISLA as grammar learning; interaction in the classroom; focus on form, function and meaning; vocabulary learning; pronunciation learning; pragmatics learning; learning contexts; and individual differences. This timely and important volume is ideally suited for the graduate level ISLA course, and provides valuable insights for any SLA scholar interested in the processes involved in second language learning in classroom settings.


Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners

Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners

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  • Author: Mariana Pacheco
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1641135093
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies, pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields including second language acquisition, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope, possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization of ethnolinguistic minorities.


Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition

Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Stephen D. Krashen
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202


Expertise in Second Language Learning and Teaching

Expertise in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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  • Author: K. Johnson
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 0230523471
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

Understanding what constitutes expertise in language learning and teaching is important for theoretical reasons related to psycholinguistic, and applied linguistic, enquiry. It also has many significant applications in practice, particularly in relation to the training and practice of language teachers and improvements in students' strategies of learning. In this volume, methodologies for establishing what constitutes expert practice are discussed and the contributions address the fields of listening, reading, writing, speaking and communication strategies, looking at common characteristics of the 'expert teacher' and the 'expert learner'.


Understanding Second Language Acquisition

Understanding Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Lourdes Ortega
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 144411705X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.


The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties

The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties

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  • Author: Judit Kormos
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1317432932
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties is the only recent book available to offer a detailed and in-depth discussion of the second language learning processes of students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). It summarizes research advances in the fields of cognitive and educational psychology and integrates them with recent studies in the area of second language acquisition (SLA). Thus the book is relevant not only to readers who are particularly interested in the role of specific learning difficulties in learning additional languages, but also to those who would like to understand how individual differences in cognitive functioning influence SLA. The book focuses on four important areas that are particularly relevant for language learners with SpLDs: the processes of SLA in general and the development of reading skills in particular, the effectiveness of pedagogical programs, the assessment of the language competence of students with SpLDs and identifying SpLDs in another language. The book also views learners with SpLDs in their social and educational contexts and elaborates how the barriers in these contexts can affect their language learning processes. This is an excellent resource for language teachers, students, and researchers in the areas of second language acquisition and applied linguistics.